You are about to take your psychology test when in the next room a nature video is being shown to another class
You focus intensely on reading and answering the test questions. When you look up a few minutes later, you realize that the video has stopped, and you hadn't even noticed. This situation illustrates your
a. sensory adaptation.
b. selective attention.
c. sensory gating.
d. selective accommodation.
ANSWER: b
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a. A professor and a teaching assistant arrive at the same score for a paper that they graded b. The items on two different personality inventories match. c. The results of a study have reached statistical significance. d. A glucose test accurately measures a diabetic’s glucose levels.
One way to randomly assign students to experimental and control groups for a study of academic behaviors is to
a. flip a coin for each student to determine which group she or he will be assigned. b. divide the group sitting in the front half of the room from the group sitting in the back. c. ask volunteers for the experimental group to raise their hands. d. do none of these.