A test that minimizes bias by using questions that would not penalize people whose background, social class, or language differs from that of the middle or upper class in a society is a(n) __________ test

You are working as an assistant to an OB specialist doing research to determine relationships between certain variables and cause-effect situations. The specialist is attempting to determine when people are motivated by pay or salary, and when they are motivated by recognition, support and encouragement. By examining the connection between rewards and incentives and motivation under various conditions, the specialist appears to be using which of the following approaches in research?

a. open-systems b. systematic study c. human resources approach d. observational e. scientific management

The ability to follow an individual conversation due to the "cocktail party effect" involves ___ of the competing conversations, presumably due to the action of the ___

a. distortion; ossicles b. potentiation; inner hair cells c. suppression; outer hair cells d. none of the above is correct