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Which of the following is NOT a recommended step in ethical decision-making?

True or False: Employees must be trained on occupational exposures before they are exposed in the workplace.

In Elizabeth Loftus’s studies on false memories, participants view a car accident and are then asked about the event. Some people are asked how fast the car was going when it “contacted” the other car, while others were asked how fast the car was going when it “smashed into” the other car. What effect did the phrasing of the question have on people’s estimation of the car’s speed?

The term homeostasis can be used to describe which of the following? 

In this figure, the structure that is involved in protein synthesis is represented by number:

A child with hemophilia fell and injured a knee while playing outside. The knee is swollen and painful. Which of the following measures should be taken to stop the bleeding? (Select all that apply.)

In this figure, calcium is released from the structure depicted as number:  

The category “Honda” is most likely a ________, and so the word Honda would be produced ________ than the word car.

Imagine that you have been on a strict diet for several weeks. No matter how hard you try, you can’t avoid thinking about chocolate chip cookies and lemon meringue pie. You are having difficulty with ________.

Many believe the field of psychology is experiencing a replication crisis. What are at least three potential reasons that a psychological study fails to replicate another study? Also, what are at least three potential changes that the field could implement to correct, or at least help, with the crisis? Finally, provide definitions and examples for the different types of replication studies one could conduct. This essay is worth a total of 25 points (3 points per reason or change correctly described + 7 points for the definitions and examples of the different types of replication studies).