When Holly's mom drops her off at daycare, she is happy to go off and play with the other children. When her mom comes to pick her up at the end of the day, she greets her excitedly and tells her all about her day

Which of the following statements about the Japanese educational system is FALSE?

A) Japanese students spend more time in school than American students. B) The Japanese national government, rather than local government, oversees the educational system. C) Japanese people believe that academic success is due more to innate ability than to effort. D) Japanese adolescents must take placement exams to get into high school.

You have designed an experiment to test a new drug

You prepare the injection doses of the drug and a placebo and label them with different alphabet letters. Then, you hire research assistants to give the injections and to collect data from the participants. These research assistants as well as the participants will not know which injection is the drug or which is the placebo or whether a participant is in the experimental or the control group. You have a. created a placebo effect. b. designed a single-blind experiment. c. designed a double-blind experiment. d. created a self-fulfilling prophecy.