Exam 2: How Do We Find Out

McGuire's research on attitude inoculation is a good example of generating a research hypothesis by taking advantage of:

B.F.Skinner appears to have discovered the partial reinforcement effect when he was running a simple conditioning experiment,ran low on food pellets,and began reinforcing only a percentage of responses he otherwise would have reinforced 100% of the time.This is an example of:

Which approach to scientific hypothesis testing would a logical positivist such as Karl Popper be most likely to support?

Induction refers to reasoning:

Dr.Swinkels conducted a lab experiment in which he told participants that one of their primary jobs was to make some ratings of scenes from popular movies.However,his actual reason for showing participants the movie clips was to manipulate the participants' mood.Once this experiment is done,Dr.Swinkels should make certain to:

In contrast to laws,theories do not always make accurate predictions.This is partly because of:

Social psychologists once thought that the fundamental attribution error was a basic feature of human social judgment.Later,research showed that people in India do not make this error.This is an example _______.

Wason (1971)used the "E,K,4,7" task to demonstrate:

Which approach to scientific hypothesis testing is similar to the bias demonstrated in Wason's (1971)"E,K,4,7" experiment?

According to David Hume,even if all the observations scientists make are consistent with a conclusion,it is always possible that they will eventually make a new observation that violates this conclusion and proves it wrong.This is known as the problem _______.

Dr.Rose showed that aggression is predicted well by genetic factors.In contrast,Dr.Jones showed that aggression is predicted well by environmental factors.Which principle suggests that Dr.Rose and Dr.Jones may both be correct?

Persuasive messages generally have the most impact shortly after they are delivered,but in some cases,the impact grows stronger over a period of time.Which deductive strategy for hypothesis generation does this represent?

Curtis believes that redheads are hot-tempered and aggressive.Because of this belief,Curtis frequently behaves aggressively toward redheads.Not surprisingly,Curtis's behavior often makes redheads angry at him,and it occasionally leads to aggressive confrontations.Curtis appears to be engaging in:

Which approach to hypothesis testing can resolve the conflict between two opposing theories by specifying the conditions under which each of the theories is correct?

Most people believe strongly in gravity because they have repeatedly observed that when specific objects are dropped,the objects (e.g. ,pins,piñatas,pianos)always fall to the earth.According to the text,this form of reasoning is referred to as: