In a Study by Hedden and His Colleagues (2008) Examining

question 126

Multiple Choice

In a study by Hedden and his colleagues (2008) examining brain activity, East Asians and European Americans underwent an fMRI while focusing on either a target or the context of a picture.In which circumstance did European Americans exert more attention?

• A) when asked to attend to the target
• B) when asked to attend to the context
• C) when asked to ignore context
• D) when in a room with many other people

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistic

Statistical methods that allow researchers to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data.

Spatial Task

A task that involves understanding, perceiving, and manipulating objects and their relationships in space.

Placebo Effect

A beneficial effect produced by a placebo drug or treatment, which cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment.

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias where the perception of one positive trait (like attractiveness) in a person influences the observer's judgment to also perceive other unrelated positive traits.