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OSWALD

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In the Simon and Emmons (1956) experiment, how did the researchers control for participant's prior knowledge related to information in the sleep learning test?
 
  A) gave a pretreatment test, eliminating answers participants did not know
  B) gave a pretreatment test, eliminating answers participants did know
  C) gave participants the correct answers while they were awake
  D) gave participants incorrect answers while they were asleep

Question 2

Concerning the notion of perceptual defense as presented in the case study on pg. 93 of your text,
 
  which of the following methodological concerns exists regarding the
  difference found in mean threshold for recognition of neutral and taboo words, according
  to Howes and Solomon (1950)?
  A) greater exposure to taboo words in everyday life
  B) greater exposure to neutral words in everyday life
  C) reluctant to say the wrong neutral word
  D) reluctant to say the correct taboo word



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pratush dev

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B




OSWALD

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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