In 1868, Phineas Gage, a young foreman on a work crew, had a 13-pound steel rod impaled into the front of his brain by an explosion of dynamite. Amazingly, he survived the accident; and within two months, Gage could walk, talk, and move normally, but the injury forever changed his personality. Dr. Harlow carefully recorded all details of this accidental frontal lobotomy. Dr. Harlow used which research method in documenting Phineas Gage’s behavior?
Ans: Case study method
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a. are unable to use an experimental design b. are able to use only a single subject who must act as his or her own control c. are unable to recruit a sufficient number of human participants d. cannot practically or ethically observe behaviors as they occur in real life
If researchers report that the results from their study were significant, p < 0.05, this means that a. if they conducted the study over they would get the same results less than 5 times in 100. b. the results are untrustworthy
c. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 95 times out of 100. d. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 5 times out of 100.
Your high school is considering the use of school uniforms. You originally thought that the idea had merit. However, your crowd at school is organizing a protest of this "violation to personal freedom" and want you to participate. When your parents hear that you were part of the cafeteria protest, they are a bit surprised by your change in attitude. Your new attitude was acquired through
a. direct contact. b. symbolic prejudice. c. chance conditioning. d. group membership.
Regarding cultural differences in how children learn to attend to objects and events, some have proposed that East Asians
a. are socialized to focus their attention on key features of objects. b. are socialized to divide their attention between objects and events in their environments. c. have analytic styles of reasoning. d. tend to focus on differences between objects.