The study of individual differences
a. has been actively studied by experimental psychologists.
b. began because of important practical decisions that had to be made about people.
c. is concerned with differences between individual groups in society.
d. concerns the effects of experimental manipulations on personality.
B
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It was not until the __________ that medical treatments became widely used to treat psychological disorders.
A. 1600s B. 1700s C. 1800s D. 1900s
Ellen is shown a somewhat ambiguous picture of a person in a lab coat studying what looks like a medical chart. Ellen is then asked to tell a story about this person. She says that this person is a new resident in a hospital and is working very long hours, but is happy to have finally reached his goal of becoming a doctor. In this story, Ellen is illustrating ____.
A criticism of using a wait-list control group as a means from which to assess the effectiveness of a treatment is problematic because people in the control group:
A) probably have different levels of motivation than do people who actively signed up to receive the treatment. B) may show natural improvement and are thus a poor comparison. C) typically have less severe symptoms than do people selected to receive the treatment. D) do not receive nonspecific treatment effects.
The Egyptian author of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus understood that a. paralysis and lack of sensation in the body resulted from nervous system damage
b. the brain is the source of every documented type of intelligence. c. functions can be localized in the brain and the spinal cord, both of which comprise the central nervous system. d. the brain is made up of trillions of separate cells.