Researchers are attempting to assess if cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for depression. Participants with unipolar depression are assessed and then randomly assigned to either a treatment group or a control group. The treatment group receives CBT twice per week for 6 weeks. The control group receives no treatment. At the end of the 6 weeks, the depression levels of
both groups are reassessed. This is an example of a(n):
A) outcome study.
B) process study.
C) single-blind experiment.
D) double-blind experiment.
A) outcome study.
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Neo-Freudian Karen Horney agreed with Freud's idea __________
a) of the importance of childhood experience. b) that the personality was divided into the id, ego and superego. c) of the five psychosexual stages. d) women wanted to have children to fulfill their unconscious wish for a penis.
__________ declines very gradually in the forties and fifties
A) Muscle mass B) Weight C) Body fat D) Abdominal fat
A high positive correlation between stress and depression demonstrates that __________.
A. stress causes depression B. depression causes stress C. depression and stress are caused by other factors D. stress and depression are somehow related to each other