According to the text, obesity-related illnesses are considered to be the _______ leading cause of preventable death in the United States today
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. twelfth
b
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When a dementia diagnosis is apparent, the individual's cognitive deficits
a. are sudden, irreversible, and chronic. b. are gradual, chronic, progressive, and usually irreversible. c. need clarification, can be serious, and are irreversible. d. are intermittent, somewhat chronic, and pervasive.
Professor Brown conducted an experiment to determine if high-carbohydrate diets influence preschool children's activity levels. In this experiment, the children's diets are the ________ variable and the children's activity levels are the ________ variable
a. dependent; independent c. random; control b. independent; dependent d. continuous; discontinuous
If the dimes start coming out on a random basis, then you would expect the
response to (a) decrease, then cease completely (b) become very resistant to extinction, due to the partial reinforcement effect (c) remain unchanged, due to generalization effects (d) remain unchanged, due to spontaneous recovery
In a meta-analysis of 33 randomized-controlled trials of the treatment of specific phobias, Wolitzky-Taylor et al. (2008 ) concluded that exposure-based treatments:
a) Produce large effect sizes relative to no treatment b) Outperform both placebo conditions and other psychotherapeutic treatments c) Are more effective when combined with another psychotherapeutic approach d) A and B only