Research has shown that:
a. adolescents and young adults use the Internet for health information, but parents are unlikely to do so when their children show signs of illness because they prefer immediate contact with a doctor.
b. There are ethnic differences in terms of perception of how the Internet affects patient-practitioner relationships.
c. most people who used the Internet for health information report that they are highly dissatisfied with this information.
d. the number of adults who have ever looked online for health information has decreased since the late ‘90's because of the burgeoning number of websites that provide inaccurate or misleading information.
B
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a. groupthink b. the bystander effect c. reciprocity d. group polarization
_____ stresses the importance of studying observable behaviours and ignores the mental processes involved in different tasks.
A) Behaviourism B) Natural selection C) Humanism D) Cognitive psychology
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