Students have found that if their psychology teacher repeats a term "three times," this term will definitely be on the test. Paying attention to specific stimuli illustrates the students'

How do information processing researchers traditionally assess adolescent decision making

processes? A) By presenting everyday problems and asking subjects to outline their decision making process in a series of steps. B) By presenting the adolescent a non-relevant, hypothetical adult problem and asking them to formulate a plan of action. C) Via Piaget's pendulum problem and similar scientific reasoning tasks. D) Via an assessment of storage and retrieval processes.

In a study investigating relaxation and anxiety among 20-year-old females, participants are randomized to receive a relaxation exercise or no treatment. Anxiety is measured on a five-point scale from "no anxiety" to "extreme anxiety"

Which of the following is an extraneous variable that could contain two or more values? a) Severity of anxiety prior to the treatmen b) Age of the participants c) Severity of anxiety after the treatment d) The anxiety measure