Allison is afraid of having a panic attack in a public place; therefore, she has refused to leave her home for the last three years unless a family member accompanies her. Allison is housebound due to a panic disorder with
a. generalized anxiety.
b. hypochondrias.
c. post-traumatic stress.
d. agoraphobia.
D
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The extent to which findings from a study can be used to describe different populations, settings, and conditions is referred to as
A. sampling. B. internal validity. C. external validity. D. the multimethod approach.
Gina believes that she is the secret love child of the late Princess Diana and singer Elton John. Since she really is not their child, Gina's belief would be considered a(n)
a. diathesis. b. delusion. c. hallucination. d. obsession. e. compulsion.
For a within-subjects experiment, one of the primary threats to internal validity is ____
a. individual differences that may exist within treatment conditions b. individual differences that may exist between treatment conditions c. the risk that participation in one treatment condition may influence scores in other treatment conditions d. the risk that one (or more) of the treatment conditions will have no influence on the participants' scores
The ages of the children in a summer camp range from 7 to 12 years old. A counselor constructs a frequency distribution graph showing the number of children for each of the six age groups. What kind of graph would be appropriate for this distribution?
a. a line graph b. a polygon c. a bar graph d. a scatter plot