Elliot and Niesta (2008) tested the hypothesis that men would find a woman more attractive when she was surrounded by a red background than when she was surrounded by other colors. In their first study the researchers compared a woman in front of a red background and a woman in front of a white background. The possibility that in this study the white background was brighter than the red
background represents which of the following?
a. A secondary variable.
b. An alternative explanation.
c. A threat to construction validity.
d. A threat to external validity.
b
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a. young adulthood b. late adolescence c. early adolescence d. middle adolescence
Picture completion, block design, and matrix reasoning are the components of the ____ index
a. verbal comprehension b. perceptual c. working memory d. processing speed
"Good Samaritan" laws
a. encourage bystanders to intervene in emergencies. b. only apply to those with professional training. c. are fairly rare in the United States. d. require people to intervene in the case of an emergency, even if doing so is dangerous for the helper.
To understand the meaning of words and phrases is to understand __________
a) symbolism b) semantics c) attention d) perception