_________________ refers to the finding that patients in medical research who are in a control condition and who do not receive actual medication, sometimes show an improvement in the illness
a. Conformity
b. Confounding
c. The placebo effect
d. Experimental error
C
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A. The prevailing view among developmental scientists is that people are active contributors to their own development. B. The longer a child is in the educational system, the greater vocabulary they will have. C. Today developmental scientists attempt to determine how nature and nurture work together to influence how people grow and change throughout life. D. The prevailing view among developmental scientists is that it is impossible to determine whether people are influenced more by their genetic make-up or by their environment.
Whose concept of anxiety did May reject?
A) Skinner’s B) Jung’s C) Rogers’ D) Freud’s
Which is MOST helpful in relieving the symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a school setting?
-providing a noise-free environment -sitting in a classroom and learning to focus for long periods of time -power-assertion discipline