Which of the following is a characteristic of the scientific method?
A. confirmation bias
B. intuitive definitions
C. systematic observation
D. circular hypotheses
C. systematic observation
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Based on outcome studies that have evaluated the effectiveness of light therapy for seasonal depressions, it appears that
a. many patients with seasonal affective disorders do respond well to light therapy. b. light therapy is an expensive but useless gimmick. c. no one knows the correct dosage of light. d. there is no theory to explain how light therapy could possibly work.
A(n) ____ is typically developed to assess knowledge or skill
a. index b. instrument c. test d. scale
The power of a statistical test refers to
a. the ability of the test to reject the null hypothesis when it is, in fact, false. b. the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is, in fact, true. c. the usefulness of the test in a wide variety of experimental designs. d. the test-retest reliability of a psychological test.
The founder of psychoanalytic psychology was
a. Carl Rogers. b. Wilhelm Wundt. c. Sigmund Freud. d. William James.