If It Is Unethical to Manipulate a Variable, Then

question 84

Multiple Choice

If it is unethical to manipulate a variable, then

• A) you cannot examine it.
• B) you cannot examine it with a nonexperimental design.
• C) you cannot examine it with an experimental design.
• D) you can use either a nonexperimental or experimental design, but you need IRB approval.

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Definitions:

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Classical Conditioning

A teaching method that employs the repetitive pairing of two stimuli; over time, the response initially caused by the second stimulus becomes caused by the first stimulus alone.

CS

An abbreviation that can stand for "Conditioning Stimulus" in behavioral psychology, relating to the process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response.

Extinction

In the field of psychology, the slow reduction and final fading of a learned response occurs when the conditioned stimulus isn't combined with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.