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The text concluded that the pecking responses of pigeons observed by Blough (1958) qualified as reports because
 
  a. a peck on one key indicated that food would be delivered.
  b. knowing which key was pecked allowed an inference as to whether the pigeon could see the stimulus.
  c. knowing which key was pecked provided no information as to whether the pigeon could see the stimulus.
  d. pigeons pecked keys regardless of whether they saw a stimulus.

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One disadvantage of within-subject designs is that they tend to require more participants than are needed for between-subject designs.
 
  a. True
  b. False
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The _______________ is considered to be a reflection of generally how much consumers have to pay for things.
 
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Which of the following is true?
 
  a. All reports are responses.
  b. All responses are reports.
  c. A response is a report if a relationship between the response and a perceptual event can be indirectly inferred.
  d. A phenomenological report is of interest in and of itself but a response is not.

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One advantage of within-subjects designs is that they completely eliminate the possibility that individual differences can become confounding variables.
 
  a. True
  b. False
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A quantitative score that measures a construct of interest by applying a formula or a set of rules that combines relevant data is a(n) _______________.
 
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To be useful to a psychologist, a phenomenological report must be
 
  a. reliable.
  b. valid.
  c. a dependent variable.
  d. all of these

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It is impossible to have order effects with a betweensubjects design.
 
  a. True
  b. False
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_______________ can be evaluated by seeing how well the test identifies performance on a future activity.
 
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Type 2 Blindsight, according to Sahraie, describes
 
  a. a blind person's feeling that a stimulus has occurred.
  b. visual capacity in a scotoma.
  c. a blind person's heightened sense of fear around stimuli.
  d. a dissociation between verbal awareness and perceptual capacity.

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