A researcher is studying the effect of caffeine on students' performance on a visual-spatial test
He tells his research assistant that some students are visual-spatial "gifted" and other students are visual-spatial "challenged," even though there are no actual differences between the two groups. After the assistant collects the data, the results indicate that the "gifted" group outperformed the "challenged" group. This illustrates
a) experimenter expectancies
b) experimenter characteristics.
c) participant expectancies.
d) participant characteristics.
A
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a) study of mental processes and not behavior b) scientific study of behavior and mental process c) study of mental disorders and their treatmeant d) science of behavior and NOT mental processes
According to Erikson, during the teenage years an individual must either develop an identity or experience role confusion. This important turning point is called
A) the identity crisis. B) generativity versus stagnation. C) ego integrity versus despair. D) more than one of the above