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Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) Describe how hazing relates to when we change our attitudes to fit our behavior (1 pt).  (b) In lecture, we learned about a studying with women in the 1950s who were recruited to join a discussion group about The Psychology of Sex. Please describe the main finding for this study. (1 pt) (c) We also discussed a different study that also looked at when we change our attitudes to fit our behavior that looked at how children choose between stickers and how monkeys choose between M&Ms. How did the children and monkeys compare in this study? Were the children more likely to change their attitudes, were the monkey more likely to change their attitudes, did both change their attitudes, or did neither change their attitudes? (1 pt) (d) Thinking about this same principle from part c, describe how this could relate to how people’s choices for presidential candidates in a primary could affect their voting in the regular election. (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) Briefly describe how fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) measurements are collected. (2 pts) (b) Briefly describe how EEG (electroencephalography) measurements are collected. (2 pts) (c) Briefly describe how TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) works. (1 pt) (d) Which one of these methods would be best for understanding a series of complex responses that occur very rapidly one after another in time? (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) Briefly describe how fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) measurements are collected. (2 pts) (b) Briefly describe how EEG (electroencephalography) measurements are collected. (2 pts) (c) Briefly describe how TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) works. (1 pt) (d) Which one of these methods would be best for understanding a series of complex responses that occur very rapidly one after another in time? (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. Years ago, some psychologists noticed that the parents of autistic children appeared very aloof and detached from their autistic children than were parents of normal children. These psychologists concluded that parental detachment was the cause of autism. (a) What type of study design is this? Be specific. (1 pt) (b) What is one strength and one weakness of this specific type of study design? (2 pts) (c) If you turned this study idea into an experiment, what would your independent variable be? (1 pt) (d) If you turned this study idea into an experiment, what would your dependent variable be? (1 pt)  

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. Years ago, some psychologists noticed that the parents of autistic children appeared very aloof and detached from their autistic children than were parents of normal children. These psychologists concluded that parental detachment was the cause of autism. (a) What type of study design is this? Be specific. (1 pt) (b) What is one strength and one weakness of this specific type of study design? (2 pts) (c) If you turned this study idea into an experiment, what would your independent variable be? (1 pt) (d) If you turned this study idea into an experiment, what would your dependent variable be? (1 pt)  

Which of the following is a positive correlation?

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) In conformity, research finds that people often conform to others’ behaviors due to informational social influence. Describe why we conform due to informational social influence. (1 pt) (b) Research also finds that people conform to others’ behaviors due to normative social influence. Describe why we conform due to normative social influence. (1 pt) (c) Describe what Sharif found in his autokinetic illusion study (and say which of the type types of social influence above from a and b did this study illustrate). (1 pt) (d) Describe what Ashe found in his line matching study (and say which of the type types of social influence above from a and b did this study illustrate). (1 pt)

Brad makes sure that during his study no extraneous variables will affect the dependent variable. Brad is trying to create