A mechanism by which experts in a field carefully screen the work of their colleagues is known as ____________
A) experimental validity
B) experimenter bias effect
C) peer review
D) peer assessment
Answer: C
Rationale: Before research findings can be published they go through peer review—a process in which papers submitted to publication in scholarly journals are read and critiqued by experts in the specific field of study.
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A. gets promoted because she has dedicated much time to her job. B. receives a compliment from the boss for doing a job very well. C. works overtime on one day in exchange for taking the previous day off. D. helps out a colleague knowing she will do the same for her someday.
If Watson's ideas are correct, then when Albert learned to fear the rat (in famous experiment), he ______
a. simply responded to the environment b. was affected by unconscious mental images c. was responding to inherited biological fears d. was avoiding the self-actualizing tendency