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lunatika · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Previous research suggests that an individual's response to alcohol use is affected by one's beliefs about the effects of alcohol.

For example, if a person believes alcohol will help decrease anxiety, he or she reports feeling less anxious after alcohol consumption. To control for such an expectancy effect, a researcher would implement a(n)
a) placebo
b) dependent variable.
c) matched-sets design.
d) extraneous variable.

Question 2

Which of the following statements illustrates Hockett's principle of displacement?

a) Two friends can talk about a football game that happened yesterday
b) Two friends can hear what each other is saying even if they can't see each other.
c) Two friends understand that certain sounds convey certain meanings.
d) Two friends can produce new sentences that no one has uttered before.