The longer people attend college the more likely they are to be capable of formal operational thinking and other forms of abstract logical thinking
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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In the Thom et al. (2000) study of the treatment of dental-phobic patients, if participants in the two experimental groups showed reduced anxiety from pretest to posttest, could the researchers conclude that the treatments were effective in reducing anxiety?
a. Yes. Reduction in anxiety for the experimental groups would prove the effectiveness of the treatment. b. No. There are many possible reasons why patients would show reduced anxiety, so the only way to know if the cause was the treatments would be to use a control group that did not get a treatment. c. Yes, but only if one of the groups had a greater reduction in anxiety than the other. d. No. To conclude that the treatments were effective, they would need to see if the effects last for many years afterwards.
Ruling out alternative theoretical explanations of results is the concern of ______ validity
a. internal b. construct c. external d. statistical
In animals, research has shown that lesions to the ventromedial hypothalamus:
a. help the animal maintain optimal weight b. produce hyperphagia c. cause the animal to become anorexic d. produce adipsia
Suppose you're driving down the highway and another driver cuts in front of you, almost causing an accident. Which of the following is the best example of a dispositional attribution for the other driver's behavior?
A. The person is under a lot of stress today. B. The person was distracted by a sudden noise. C. The person is an unskilled driver. D. The person didn't see your car when they changed lanes.