The American Psychological Association formed the Committee on Scientific and Professional Ethics, which has developed a series of ethical principles, which researchers must strictly follow. Why were these ethical principles established?

A) Researchers needed more freedom to conduct their research
B) More funding was available for use by the APA
C) Experimenters have used questionable methods in the past
D) Participants were failing to show up for research studies

C

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a. overconfidence. b. the framing effect. c. functional fixedness. d. the representativeness heuristic. e. the availability heuristic.

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According to studies cited in the textbook, special intervention programs raised IQ scores

as much as __________ points. a. 20 b. 30 c. 59 d. 75 e. 100

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