To test whether people in bars drink more when they are in groups than when they are alone, researchers visited all the pubs in a city. They ordered beers and recorded observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper. Why did they keep their identities in
a. They were conducting a double-blind study.
b. They wanted to make sure the study had test-retest reliability.
c. They needed to determine the experimenter effects in the study at a later point in time.
d. They wanted the people they were observing to behave naturally.
Answer: d
Psychology
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Wilma travels the world, and wherever she goes, she always figures out how to communicate with the people there, even if they don't speak English. Howard Gardner would probably say that Wilma has a lot of what type of intelligence?
A) Naturalistic B) Interpersonal C) Spatial D) Linguistic
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