Dr. Francis is conducting a study in which she is examining
the impact of a new math tutoring program on elementary school students' performance in a math class. She has hypothesized that the tutoring will significantly increase the performance of students who are enrolled in this program. She has to remember not to let her expectation of an outcome influence her interpretation of the final data. In other words, she needs to defend against the _____ effect.
A) Flynn
B) nocebo
C) Rosenthal
D) Rogers
Answer: C
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Mr. Mitchell's son Dennis is a menace. Dennis is cruel to animals and often shoplifts. In attempting to explain Dennis's morals, Mr. Mitchell says, "I think that his moral habits were learned by watching bad television shows.". Mr. Mitchell's comments are best associated with the _____ view concerning moral behavior
a. psychodynamic b. Piagetian c. social learning theory d. cognitive developmental
Jean Piaget explained that people form generalizations as they experience the world, which help them to organize past experiences and provide a framework for understanding future experiences. These generalizations are called ____.?
a. ?scripts b. ?periods c. ?schemas d. ?stages
Cross-cultural researchers find that the causes of high self-esteem are
A. similar in nearly all cultures. B. different in individualistic and collectivist cultures. C. similar in nearly all cultures, but what makes people happy varies across cultures. D. impossible to assess because of subtle differences among languages.
Which of the following does NOT contribute to the rising number of adolescent suicides?
a) Impaired cognitive development b) Social inhibition and perfectionism c) Availability of guns in the United States d) High level of stress and anxiety