Social Variables Graduate Students Who Were Told Their Rats Were

question 14

Multiple Choice

Social Variables Graduate students who were told their rats were either "maze-bright" or "stupid" observed dramatic differences in maze performance.The "maze-bright" rats quickly learned to run the maze while the "stupid" rats did poorly.What do these results illustrate?

• A)experimenter bias
• B)selection threat
• C)the Rosenthal effect
• D)experimenter bias and the Rosenthal effect

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Definitions:

Brightness

A measure of how light or luminous a space or source appears to the eye.

Intensity of Nonspectral Color

The degree of strength or vividness of a color that does not correspond to a single wavelength of light but is perceived as a mixture of wavelengths.

McCullough After-effect

A phenomenon where prolonged viewing of colored stimuli causes an object to appear in complementary colors when subsequently viewed on a white background.

Pool Their Signals

This concept involves combining multiple indicators or signals to enhance decision-making or analysis.