Describe some of the problems that can develop if participants from different treatment conditions have an opportunity to talk with each other during the course of the experiment
What will be an ideal response?
If participants in a no-treatment condition talk with participants in a treatment condition they may learn about the treatment and adopt some of the treatment components. This leads to diffusion of treatment. If participants in an inferior condition learn about a superior treatment being received by others, they may demand equal treatment (compensatory equalization), they may become extra motivated to make up for the inferior treatment (compensatory rivalry), or they may give up in the face of a hopeless situation (resentful demoralization).
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a. the United States was the first country in the world to allow women to vote. b. all of the countries in which women have been the heads of state are located in Europe. c. women throughout the world share basically the same set of concerns about their life situations. d. women in developing countries are likely to have a different set of concerns from women living in North America and Europe.
Which of the following DSM personality disorders is more common in males than in females?
a) antisocial personality disorder b) borderline personality disorder c) avoidant personality disorder d) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
One of the most critical intellectual skills that is developed and elaborated during middle childhood is
A. speaking. B. synthesizing information from multiple sources. C. reading. D. forming scientific hypotheses.
Explicit is to implicit as:
a) amnesics are to controls b) semantic is to episodic c) priming is to recognition d) conscious is to unconscious