In preparation for his master's thesis, Al spends time in the mall observing the shoppers' behavior. His notes reveal a tendency for people to smile when someone, even a stranger, smiles at them. Later in the semester,
he designs a questionnaire that focuses on typical reactions when someone smiles. He wonders if the sex, style of dress, and age of a person who smiles has any influence on returned smiles, so he designs research to answer this question. In order, which research methods has Al used?
a) experiment, case study, survey
b) case study, survey, experiment
c) correlation, case study, experiment
d) naturalistic observation, survey, experiment
ANS: d
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a. MRI. b. fMRI. c. EEG. d. TAT.
What is the key to the Ames room illusion?
a) You are fooled by the size of the image on your retina. b) You have imposed movement where none has actually occurred. c) You have relied on the principles of figure and ground in arriving at an incorrect hypothesis. d) Your attention is impacted by the increased tendency for you to blink as you observe the illusion.