Author Question: Jessica Witt and her colleagues (2009 ) asked people with chronic back and/or leg pain to estimate ... (Read 52 times)

tfester · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Jessica Witt and her colleagues (2009 ) asked people with chronic back and/or leg pain to estimate their distance from various objects placed in a long hallway and found that _____.

A) the chronic pain group consistently underestimated their distance from objects
B) the chronic pain group was wildly inaccurate in estimating their distance from objects, with some underestimating and others overestimating
C) the chronic pain group consistently overestimated their distance from objects
D) there was no relationship between chronic pain and ability to estimate distances

Question 2

In research by Nisbett and Wilson, research participants read information about a woman who spilled coffee during a job interview. The surprising finding of this study was that

a. research participants were quite accurate in indicating why they liked or did not like the applicant.
b. although the research participants believed that spilling coffee made them like the applicant less, it actually made them like her more.
c. although the research participants did not know it, spilling coffee actually made them like the woman less.
d. there was no observed relationship between the spilling of coffee and the research participants' liking of the woman.