A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment
Related Mcqs:
- When two groups of participants were each shown a different set of results based on a experiment with rats, both groups reported that the results shown to them were obvious outcomes. This suggests that sometimes things appear to be more obvious than they should. Which cognitive phenomenon can explain this effect?
A. Hindsight bias
B. Intuition
C. Availability heuristic
D. Conditional reasoning - Ashley is trying to create a small Christmas village on the mantle of her fireplace. She bought 3-inch high figures to put near the back. Ashley is trying to increase the impression of depth in her Christmas village through the use of:
A. texture gradient
B. linear perspective
C. light and shadow
D. relative size - Practices that prevent educational participants from raising concerns that are important to them is known as_________?
A. part of the hidden curriculum
B. streaming
C. school socialization
D. silencing - Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which participants made judgements about the length of lines. He was studying_________?
A. Compliance
B. Obedience
C. Rule making
D. Conformity - In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated:
A. Retinal disparity
B. Stroboscopic movement
C. Perceptual constancy
D. Inattentional blindness - The conditions that researcher wishes to prevent from affecting the experiment are called:
A. constants
B. dependent variables
C. extraneous variables
D. independent variables - In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?
A. factorial design
B. within subjects design
C. between subjects design
D. quasi-experimental design - If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?
A. invalid
B. biased
C. error
D. unreliable - An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:
A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
B. rote memory scores
C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue - Sherif’s autokinetic experiments and Asch’s line studies demonstrated the power of which social psychological factor on the degree to which people confirm?
A. Group identity
B. individual norms
C. Individual identity
D. Group norms
