In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to discover or confirm the researcher's predictions and motives, psychologists sometimes:
a. allow participants to consent to the study.
b. treat all information as confidential.
c. ask each participant to respond honestly.
d. deceive participants about the true nature of the study.
A. Deception is often used to keep the true nature of the study hidden.
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Which of the following statements is supported by research on crying?
A) Fatigue is the most common cause of infant crying. B) Newborns often cry at the sound of another crying baby. C) Crying peaks at 12 weeks and then steadily declines. D) Nearly all infants show signs of colic in the first few months of life.
It is possible that before eyewitnesses came forward to identify Randall Adams as the man who murdered a police officer, they had seen his face on television or in the newspaper
Because they saw Adams in the media, they might have come to believe that he was the man they saw on the road where the murder occurred. This is an example of a. the own-race bias. b. erroneous source monitoring. c. the power of schemas to bias attention. d. racial misidentification.