Suppose that a research group wants to see whether a new educational program has an effect on children's bias against children of the other gender. In this study, the experimental group takes part in an educational program about gender, and the control group takes part in a different educational program. Which of the following factors—if true—would most likely be the confounding variable?
a. All of the children in both conditions are European American.
b. The children in the gender-program condition are about one year older than the children in the control condition.
c. No teacher has ever discussed any gender-related issues with the class.
d. The children all live in the suburbs of Chicago.
B
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a. Type II (false negative) b. Type I (false positive) c. logical d. statistical
If someone is influenced by something of which they are unaware, this would be an example of:
a) access consciousness in the absence of phenomenal consciousness. b) phenomenal consciousness in the absence of access consciousness. c) having both access and phenomenal consciousness of an event. d) having neirther access nor phenomenal consciousness of an event.
Adaptation
What will be an ideal response?
What did the study by Kassin and Kiechel (1996) examine?
A) why guilty people confess B) why innocent people confess C) why guilty people refuse to confess D) why guilty people do not get convicted