When Cues Are Present Within a Task Itself That Suggest

question 90

Multiple Choice

When cues are present within a task itself that suggest to a participant how to respond in an experiment,______________ exist.

• A)expectancy effects
• B)task demands
• C)a speed-accuracy trade-off
• D)confounds

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Definitions:

Psychical Mechanisms

Processes by which psychological factors influence or determine behavior and mental states.

Hysterical Phenomena

Symptoms or behaviors that are a manifestation of extreme stress, anxiety or unconscious conflict, often appearing without an apparent organic cause.

Freud And Breuer

Refers to Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, pioneers in the development of psychoanalysis, with their early work on hysteria laying the groundwork for psychoanalytic theory.

Hysteria

An outdated medical term once used to describe a variety of psychological disorders characterized by extreme emotional reactions and somatic symptoms; now understood in terms of specific disorders.