Influential Experiments and Methods

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AP Psychology › Influential Experiments and Methods

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Solomon Asch's line judgment task investigated which phenomenon of human interaction?

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What is the main difference between laboratory experiments and field experiments?

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Which of the following best describes the difference between basic and applied psychological research?

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A researcher wants to run a study to figure out whether people who drink water are happier than people who drink soda. If some of the subjects are led to believe that they drank something (when they didn't) and their happiness changes, what experimental error is this an example of?

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A researcher wants to run a study to figure out whether people who drink water are happier than people who drink soda. In order to figure this out, the researcher tests the happiness of the subjects, has them do a long puzzle to distract them, has them drink either the water or the soda, and then tests their happiness again. If the subjects' happiness goes down because they did the puzzle in between the two happiness tests, what kind of experimental error is this?

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In Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment on obedience, he asked participants to administer electric shocks to another person in order to help the person learn a list of words. They could hear but not see the other person; furthermore, the “learner” was an actor and no electric shocks were ever administered to them. Which of the following best describes Milgram’s primary finding?

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In Mark Rosenzweig and David Krech's 1950's rat experiment, they observed rats that were in impoverished caged environments versus ones in cages with communally enriched environments that included slides and toys. Which of the following best represent the significant discovery that resulted from the brain analysis of the two types of rats?

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A researcher is curious about how temperature relates to aggression and predicts that as the temperature in a room increases, a measure of the subject's aggression will increase as well. What is the experimental design term for "temperature" in this scenario?

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What is the name of the experiments, conducted by Roger Sperry and his colleagues, that revealed the functional specialization of cerebral hemispheres?

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A researcher wants to run a study to figure out whether people who drink water are happier than people who drink soda. When the drinks are given to the subjects, all the water is put in blue cups and all the soda is put in red cups. What kind of experimental error is the change in color?

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