A direction and strength of the relationship of two variables are assessed with ______.
A. correlational studies
B. between-subject design
C. within-subjects design
D. matched-pair design
Answer: A
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Your nephew knows you are familiar with the impact of television on learning and hopes that you can intercede on his behalf. Based on the research, you can honestly tell his parents that a. viewing television violence does not bring about increases in aggressive behavior. b. viewing television violence leads viewers to underestimate the occurrences of real-world violence. c. viewing television violence may bring about a reduction in both emotional arousal and distress at viewing violent behavior. d. there has been little psychological research on the behavioral impact of viewing television violence.
When considering why people do what they do, psychoanalytic approaches are to behaviorist approaches as:
a. punishments are to defense mechanisms. b. internal programming is to avoiding conflict. c. resolving unconscious conflicts is to external programming. d. external programming is to resolving unconscious conflicts.
The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to eliminate the recency effect is to
A. have participants say "la, la, la" while studying the list. B. present the list more slowly. C. have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list. D. have participants see the words on a screen, rather than hear them.
John attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. These sessions
a. do not fit the guidelines to be considered a group therapy. b. will be less effective than individual therapy for his disorder. c. will have group members with similar problems who can offer support and useful input. d. are characterized by all of these statements.