Ramesh went to McDonald's to observe people eating in fast-food restaurants. He brought a camera crew and bright lights, and they all wore yellow jump suits. Ramesh said he wanted to do a naturalistic observation but may have had some problems because of __________.
A. room crowding
B. observer effects
C. participant observation
D. eating McDonald's food
Answer: B
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a. feel dissimilar from her same-sex peers. b. feel a lack of emotional arousal in her adult life. c. develop sexual preferences that are typical for girls. d. find boys to be "exotic and erotic."
John, a 30-year-old male, acts “like a different person” and often refers to himself by different names when he is intoxicated. His friends worry whether he has a mental health disorder. John sees a psychologist, who informs him that he cannot be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Why not, according to the APA?
a. John is too old for dissociative identity disorder. b. Symptoms cannot be attributable to the physiological effects of a substance. c. Dissociative identity disorder is more common in females. d. Men typically deny these symptoms when they see a mental health professional.
According to research by Out et al. in 2010, which of the following statements is true of infants' cries?
A) Crying among babies is not universal. B) Adults perceive low-pitched crying to be more urgent, distressing, and sick sounding than high-pitched crying. C) Their pitch and duration are uniform across babies. D) They are mainly related to the experience of pain.
Research on the treatment of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with psychostimulants suggests that
a. the beneficial effects of psychostimulants cease completely at puberty b. ADHD children exhibit decreased motor activity in response to psychostimulants, whereas normal children exhibit hyperactivity in response to psychostimulants c. both a and b d. neither a nor b