Author Question: Aimee attends a large lecture section of Introductory Psychology every Tuesday and Thursday ... (Read 65 times)

stephzh · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Aimee attends a large lecture section of Introductory Psychology every Tuesday and Thursday throughout her first semester at college. According to the mere exposure effect, Aimee should

a. come to intensely dislike psychology.
b. come to intensely like psychology.
c. more positively evaluate the face of the guy who sat in front of her in class all semester than the face of astranger.
d. more positively evaluate the face of a stranger than the guy who sat in front of her in class all semester.

Question 2

Random assignment is essential to establishing causality because it

a. permits researchers to verify that they have a diverse and representative sample of participants.
b. reduces the possibility that individual characteristics of the participants produced the observed results.
c. increases the external validity of the experiment and virtually eliminates issues of reliability.
d. allows researchers to determine whether or not their operational definitions reflect the variables of interest.