One Study Asked Trained Clinicians and Naïve Observers to Look

question 34

Multiple Choice

One study asked trained clinicians and naïve observers to look at drawings by mentally ill patients,for signs of the artists' disorders.The researchers randomly paired each picture with a particular disorder.The results indicated that:

• A)only the therapists' schemas for how mental illness should look shaped how the drawings were perceived.
• B)only the naïve observers' schemas for how mental illness should look shaped how the drawings were perceived.
• C)the prime of mental illness did not affect how the drawings were perceived.
• D)both naïve observers and trained clinicians were more likely to shape beliefs based on preexisting schemas.

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