In a study by Bargh and colleagues (1996), participants were exposed to stereotypes about the elderly through a scrambled sentence task. What was their main finding?
a. Participants primed with the elderly stereotype walked more slowly down the hallway than those who were not primed.
b. It took the experimenter longer to debrief participants primed with the elderly stereotype than those who were not primed.
c. Participants primed with the elderly stereotype actually walked faster down the hallway than those who were not primed.
d. There were no differences found between those participants primed with the elderly stereotype and those who were not primed.
Question 2
When you arrive at your first college class you find a seat, take out your notebook, and being to record information the professor writes on the board. Previous experience of being a high school student helped you determine what to do in this situation.
In social psychological terms, the cognitive structure that guided your behavior is commonly known as ______________.
a. a plan
b. a schema
c. a self-fulfilling prophecy
d. the perseverance effect
Traniello and his colleagues demonstrated that social insects may develop “social imm
Model of a longitudinal study in which 983 students were surveyed in 1984 and then again in 1985, 19
The Prison Study
The Olestra study followed a sequence of steps
Carons' study