Which of the following may be safely inferred when a significant negative correlation is found between variables x and y?

a. x causes y
b. y causes x
c. as x increases, y increases
d. as x increases, y decreases


d. as x increases, y decreases

Psychology

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What is the major purpose of Meichenbaum's self-instruction training?

a. to help adults become more assertive b. to teach depressed persons to change their attributions c. to encourage patients to engage in collaborative empiricism d. to assist children in learning to internalize rules of appropriate behavior

Psychology

Mainstreaming involves placing children with special needs in the regular classroom while also having the child receive special individualized instruction

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Psychology

List the three key elements of humanistic therapy.

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Professor Nehls tells his class that when a person with narcolepsy has a sleep attack, he or she experiences

A. REM sleep. B. the usual alternation between REM and NREM sleep. C. immediate deep NREM sleep. D. wave forms not observed during normal sleep.

Psychology