Doug is conducting a study of gender differences in conversation dyads. He decides to sit in the student center and watch male/male dyads versus female/female dyads. He believes that the distance between the female/female dyads will be much smaller than that between the male/male dyads. When collecting the data, he notes all cases that fit his hypothesis but tends to "miss" most cases that do not
fit his hypothesis. Doug's data collection behavior illustrates the pitfall of:
a. expectancy effects.
b. reactivity.
c. expectancy syndrome.
d. experimenter blindness.
a
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a. holism b. emergentism c. phenomenalism d. vitalism
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A) pituitary gland. B) striatum. C) basal ganglia. D) substantia nigra.
Ms. Bujanos, a third-grade teacher, finds it fascinating to watch how children's attention spans and their ability to plan and to problem solve increase over the course of the school year. Ms. Bujanos is observing
a. physical development. c. personality development. b. cognitive development. d. social development.
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A) Rejected B) Neglected C) Aggressive D) Withdrawn