Marty’s grandmother passed away after a short illness. The n…
Marty’s grandmother passed away after a short illness. The neighbors took turns providing food for Marty’s family for two weeks after her grandmother’s death. The neighbors’ gifts of food after the death of Marty’s grandmother are an example of
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Dr. Frank is the experimenter administering a treatment to the participants in a study. She is not aware of which participants are in the experimental group and which are in the control group, furthermore, the participants don’t know which group they have been assigned to in the study. This is an example of a _____________.
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A researcher is interested in determining the relationship (association) between sleep and attention. He asked participants in his study about the number of hours they slept the night before they completed a test of sustained attention. He then calculated the correlation between number of hours slept and the score on the attention task . He found a +.81 correlation between these two variables. What does this result mean?
Read DetailsMaya played peek-a-boo with her 3-month-old nephew and whene…
Maya played peek-a-boo with her 3-month-old nephew and whenever she hid her face and then reappeared, he would laugh. When he was 9 months old, Maya played peek-a-boo with him again. This time he laughed and enjoyed the game, trying to uncover her face with his hands by pulling on the blanket. Maya’s 9-month-old nephew has begun to develop _________.
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According to the fundamental attribution error, not only do we have a tendency to see others behavior as arising from their personality, but this tendency sometimes leads us to under appreciate the role of situational influences. Why?
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