Some African Americans Engage in "Code Switching" When Talking with Their

question 51

Multiple Choice

Some African Americans engage in "code switching" when talking with their European American conversational partners. According to Ribeau et al. (1999) , these code switchers are engaging in

• A) a process of avoiding negative stereotyping.
• B) their own personal expressiveness.
• C) being authentic.
• D) attempting to change the power dynamics.

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Definitions:

Temporal Lobes

Regions of the cerebral cortex located on both sides of the brain, involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Demand Characteristics

Aspects of an experimental setting that lead participants to guess the purpose of the study and adjust their behavior to what they believe the experiment expects.

Experimenter-Expectancy Effect

A bias in research outcomes where the researcher's expectations inadvertently influence the participants' performance.

Double-Blind Design

An experimental design in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment.