Jeremy agrees to participate in a psychology experiment and when he arrives for the study, he is greeted by a very serious experimenter wearing a white lab coat carrying a clipboard
As he enters the laboratory room, Jeremy notes some rather intimidating looking equipment and concludes that he will be experiencing some unpleasant conditions in the study. These kinds of clues are referred to as
a. demand characteristics.
b. interobserver reliability.
c. continuous measures.
d. ordinal scales.
a
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Which of the following statements concerning gender segregation is TRUE?
A) Gender segregation diminishes after the age of three. B) Gender segregation typically begins during early grade school years. C) Gender segregation is a cultural universal. D) Gender segregation is predominant only in third-world cultures.
When pleasant memories are more likely to be recalled than unpleasant memories, this is called
a) implicit memory. b) explicit memory. c) the Pollyanna principle. d) autobiographical memory.