The most important control strategy in single-subject research is
a. controlling for rival hypotheses
b. obtaining a stable baseline
c. random assignment of subjects to treatments
d. using reliable statistical techniques
b
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Which of the following is the most popular means of disposition in the United States?
a. Entombment b. Cremation c. Earth burial d. Burial at sea
An IQ test to World War I military recruitsincluded a scale that relied more heavily on pictures and acting out instructions. Results revealed that 47 percent of the men tested had a mental age of thirteen or less. Why??
a. ?The men were mentally defective. b. ?The test was culturally biased. c. ?The test required more creativity than the Alpha test d. ?Goddard tested the men one at a time and discriminated against black recruits.
Regression to the mean implies that if extreme scores are obtained for some individuals and then the observations are repeated, the second scores obtained for these same individuals will be
a. closer to the mean of the first scores of the entire group. b. more extreme than the first scores of the entire group. c. exactly the same as before. d. unreliable.
According to the _____________ perspective, extinction changes a person's mental representation of the environment because the conditioned stimulus is no longer predictive of an unconditioned stimulus
a. behavioral c. evolutionary b. cognitive d. clinical