In a lot of research on smoking among adolescents, the reported number may not be a useful indicator because
a. most of the research used key informant sampling rather than probability sampling.
b. many people are not willing to recognize the extent to which adolescents have become addicted to cigarettes.
c. the definition of what it means to smoke is not well defined on most surveys.
d. the tobacco industry has been successful in keeping the number of adolescent smokers hidden.
C
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A common structured interview for eating disorders is the
a. Eating Disorders Examination. b. Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire. c. Binge Eating Scale. d. Kids Eating Disorders Survey.
Vanessa, who is 40, apparently believes that she is a 20-year-old woman. Suddenly, however, she starts to speak and behave very differently, and says she no longer thinks of herself as "Vanessa.". Instead, she claims to be Elise, a 10-year-old child. It is likely that Vanessa has just experienced a a. switch
b. dissociative fugue. c. conversion reaction. d. Manic episode.
Which of the following examples is most likely to have a negative correlation?
a. Number of hours spent studying and test scores b. Amount of violent television viewed and number of aggressive acts committed C. How many time the subject smiles per day and their unhappiness level d. Weight and height e. Your test scores and the Russian economy in 1994
Learning by watching the behavior of another person, or model, is known as
A. tangential learning. B. perceptual learning. C. latent learning. D. observational learning.