Which statement most accurately reflects the susceptibility of science to bias?
a. Science is more biased than most human activities.
b. Science is just as biased as any other human enterprise.
c. Science is a social enterprise and is subject to all types of human bias.
d. Science has built in mechanisms that prevent bias.
c
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a. hippocampus b. cingulate gyrus c. thalamus d. amygdala e. hypothalamus
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
In a study of how feelings of ambivalence influence behavior, Durso, Briñol, and Petty (2016) investigated the effects of power prior to measuring tendencies toward action vs inaction. What did they find?
a. Feeling powerful led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand. b. Feeling powerful led to more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task. c. Feeling powerful neither led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand nor led to more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task. d. Feeling powerful led to more action than feeling powerless when participants had been given univalent (compared to ambivalent) information about the task at hand but more inaction than feeling powerless when participants had been given ambivalent information about the task.
You go to a neurologist because of headaches. You are told that the doctor would like to get some images of your brain and that the procedure involves a technique in which a narrow x-ray beam will be passed through your head. You know a little bit about brain study techniques and realize that the doctor is suggesting a(n)
a. CAT scan. c. PET scan. b. MRI. d. autopsy.