Hong and colleagues (2003) primed bicultural students with American, Chinese, or neutral images and had them make attributions about why a fish was swimming in front of other fish. What was the independent variable of this experiment?

a. the type of attribution
b. the students
c. the type of images
d. there was no independent variable

Answer: C

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A psychologist is conducting a longitudinal study in which she measures the percent of internal and external attributions made in the United States and India. Her research participants are six-year-old children who are followed for 10 years

What is she likely to find when she completes her research? a) Making attributions is such a fundamental process that culture has little influence. b) The percentage of attributions will be approximately 50-50 in both countries during this age range. c) Starting around age 8, there will be a significant shift from internal to external attributions in India but not in the U.S. d) Starting around age 11, there will be a much larger increase in the percentage of internal attributions in the U.S. compared to India.

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