A disadvantage of conducting experiments in child development research is that
A) they are sometimes unethical or impractical.
B) some children are too young to provide verbal responses.
C) the researcher must randomly assign participants to groups.
D) they are more biased than descriptive methods.
A) they are sometimes unethical or impractical. Some experiments are, in practice, impossible because they may present a physical or psychological risk to children.
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a. observational learning. b. classical conditioning. c. reinforcement. d. punishment.
Which researcher studied memory by using nonsense syllables?
A) Frederick Bartlett B) Hermann Ebbinghaus C) Donald Thomson D) Elizabeth Loftus
If you are trying to recall the concept "test anxiety" for your final psychology exam, you are more likely to mistakenly write "test nervousness" or "test worry" than "text anxiety" or "tent anxiety" because information for your psychology final is most likely stored in long-term memory
a. phonetically. b. on the basis of visual images. c. procedurally. d. on the basis of meaning.
A neonate is an
a. infant who was born early. b. infant who has a low birth weight. c. a newborn to one-month-old infant. d. infant who is about to be born.