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 _____________.

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?

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 _________. 

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?

Accessibility refers to a tendency for people to

The _______________ holds that people have a tendency to believe that another person’s behavior is due to his or her disposition rather than the situation in which that person finds themself. 

Which of the following is NOT one of the modification problems with lists that we discussed in class?

Which personality trait is linked to being dependable, organized, and persistent?

The Big Five personality traits include extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.

What part of the amino acid determines its identity?