Suppose a new therapy enables half of all patients with depression to show improvement within seven months. To evaluate this finding, what is the most important additional information that we need?

a. Was this a representative sample of all types of people with depression?
b. How rapidly did they improve within this seven-month period?
c. Did the other half of the patients show any improvement later?
d. How many people would improve in seven months without treatment?


d

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Which of the following is a universal expression?

A. frustration B. frustration C. anger D. confusion

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You arrive late for a home football game and are stuck in traffic just outside the stadium. Although you cannot see the game, you can hear the crowd's reaction. Based on that reaction you conclude that your team just scored

This interpretation is an example of a) sensation. b) adaptation. c) perception. d) transduction.

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A humanistic psychologist would most likely agree that

a. anxiety occurs when we try so hard to live up to others' expectations that we lose touch with our own desires and feelings. b. anxiety results from feelings and emotions repressed during childhood. c. anxiety results from unconscious desires. d. anxiety results from irrational thoughts.

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