Lucille is testing a new treatment for anxiety disorders. She has recruited participants, and assigns the first 50 recruits to the treatment condition and the second 50 to the placebo condition. Using this procedure to assign participants to conditions suggests Lucille does not understand the importance of in experimental research
a. placebo
b. randomization
c. assessment
d. external validity
b
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b. Those in group B remember the material better. c. Those in group B remember better at first, but those in group A remember longer. d. Students in the two groups remember about equally.
What type of development involves the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their relationships grow, change, or remain stable over the course of life?
A. cognitive B. physical C. personality D. social
Which of the following is the correct order of steps in reading?
A. morpheme producer, automatic detector, word analyzer B. phoneme producer, word analyzer, syntax detector C. morpheme producer, phoneme analyzer, work detector D. phoneme producer, word analyzer, automatic detector
To the extent that a "criminal personality" exists, it is MOST related to which personality disorder?
A) paranoid B) narcissistic C) antisocial D) borderline