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Heidi is running a study for a large mental health center. She is responsible for assigning participants to one of two conditions--either the condition that receives the medicine being tested or a placebo pill. The actual nurses and doctors administering the medication or placebos do not know which they are giving, nor do the patients know which they are receiving. Only Heidi tracks this
information. Heidi's study uses a(n) design. a. blind b. double-blind c. triple-blind d. biased
Contemporary views on identity development suggest that
A. it is a much simpler process than Erikson implied. B. it is a shorter process than Erikson implied. C. it begins in emerging adulthood rather than adolescence. D. it evolves over the course of the life cycle.
Which of the following is NOT a current explanation for what causes the reminiscence bump?
a. People develop a self-identify around their twenties and create a story of their memories to support it. b. People between ten and thirty form a script about their lives, as part of Erikson’s psychosocial developmental theory. c. Many first-time, novel events happen between the years of ten and thirty. d. The memories between the ages of ten and thirty define the self, and these memories integrate long-term concepts of ourselves with memories.
The most serious ethical problem in debriefing subjects in a psychology study is whether
A) debriefing might damage subject self-esteem when they learn that they were easily deceived. B) debriefing will reverse all of an experiment's negative effects. C) researchers should ask subjects if they were deceived by the experimental procedure. D) subjects will reveal the true purpose of a study to prospective subjects.