Ethnographers strive to minimize their influence on research participants by
A) choosing a group of participants whose characteristics are as much alike as possible.
B) becoming part of the culture they are studying.
C) holding all factors constant except for the independent variable.
D) asking each participant the same set of questions in the same way.
B
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Which of the following areas of research on imagery provides the most support for the propositional-code argument, rather than the analog-code argument?
a. the research on imagery and ambiguous figures b. the research on imagery and interference c. the research on imagery and size d. the research on imagery and rotation
A regular television viewer finds the need to snack while watching his programs because of all the commercials for food. This demonstrates the influence of ________ on eating behavior
a. psychological factors c. biological factors b. physiological factors d. none of these
A researcher is interested in examining the relationship between one's actual memory abilities and one's perception of how good his or her memory abilities are. Subjects in this study are given a study list of words and asked to remember these words after a short delay. They are also given a questionnaire and asked how good the subject thinks his or her memory is, where a high score means the subject thinks he or she has high memory abilities. The researcher finds a small but positive relationship between the memory test scores and the questionnaire scores.Which of the following are dependent (response)variables in this study? (Choose all that apply)
A. the delay between the study list and the memory test B. the score on the questionnaire C. the score on the memory test D. the number of words in the study list
Which of the following provides some evidence that Fromm's ideas might be right?
A) In Western countries, psychological depression has been steadily decreasing for the past 50 years. B) Communal societies have been found to have more violent crimes than non-communal societies. C) In Western countries, psychological depression has been steadily rising for the past 50 years. D) Divorce is on the decline in America.