A stress researcher wants to look at the effect of meditation on anxiety. To do this, she creates two groups of subjects: one group receives instruction in meditation, whereas the other receives no training at all. One month later, she has subjects complete a questionnaire designed to measure anxiety and she looks to see whether there are any differences in anxiety between the two groups. In this experiment, the meditation condition (meditation vs. no meditation) would be the _____________ variable and anxiety would be the _____________ variable.
a. dependent; dependent
b. independent; dependent
c. dependent; independent
d. independent; independent
Answer: c. dependent; independent
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. menstrual manipulation c. menarche b. menstrual suppression d. menopause
Susan did very poorly on her last history exam. Susan attributed her poor performance on the exam to not putting enough time and effort into studying. According to Rotter, Susan's attribution of her grade illustrates this.
a. External locus of control b. Reciprocal determinism c. Self-efficacy d. Internal locus of control
Which among the following is a key difference between positive psychology and humanism?
A. Positive psychology focuses more on people who fall within the norm, whereas humanism focuses on abnormal psychological experiences in people. B. Positive psychology practices less experimental methodology, whereas humanism conducts many research experiments. C. Positive psychology emphasizes scientific research and reasoning, whereas humanism does not. D. Positive psychology studies optimism, whereas humanism tends to focus on pessimism.