Researchers Provided Participants with Audiotapes That Contained Subliminal Messages to Improve

question 121

Multiple Choice

Researchers provided participants with audiotapes that contained subliminal messages to improve memory or to raise self-esteem. After participants had listened to the tapes, the researchers assessed their memory or self-esteem. Greenwald and his colleagues found that the subliminal messages __________.

• A) worked, and people correctly thought that they did
• B) worked, but people were skeptical about their success
• C) did not work, but people thought that they did
• D) did not work, and people were correctly skeptical

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Definitions:

Periodic Inventory System

A method of inventory management where inventory levels and cost of goods sold are updated in the accounting records on a periodic basis, such as monthly or annually.

FIFO Cost Method

An inventory valuation method that assumes goods are sold in the order they were acquired, using the costs of the earliest items first.

Ending Inventory

This is the total value of all inventory still available for sale at the end of an accounting period.

Periodic Inventory System

An inventory accounting method where inventory levels and cost of goods sold are determined at the end of an accounting period.