Stephanie Conducts an Experiment to Learn If Brunettes Have More

question 13

Multiple Choice

Stephanie conducts an experiment to learn if brunettes have more fun. She has three brunette female friends and three blonde female friends go to the same party and record how many times they are asked to dance. When Stephanie discovers that two of the three brunette friends in her experiment are terrible dancers, she realizes that her results may be invalid due to

• A) a poor manipulation.
• B) a confounding variable.
• C) a fourth variable.
• D) the lack of redheads in the study.

Recognize the effect of social support and past experience on coping capabilities and stress management.

Identify stressors as physical or psychological demands from the environment.

Understand the physiological and biochemical stress responses, including their limits and the concept of the fight-or-flight response.

Acknowledge how perceptions, organization, interpretation, and response to information play a role in stress.

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