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
Biology deals with the study of the many varieties of living organisms.
Vasectomy. (a) Vas deferens is located within the spermatic cord on both sides. (b) A small incision
Sperry’s classic study of eye rotation and regeneration.
The results from West and Crook's study of memory for telephone numbers
Results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to detect SNPs
Marking for Population Study