The goal of experimental control is to
a. emphasize description rather than explanation.
b. prevent confounding variables from affecting the dependent variable.
c. make simple research appear complicated.
d. determine whether the dependent variable causes the independent variable to change.
B
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Compared to humanistic and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy, behavioral psychotherapy
A. emphasizes empiricism. B. defines problems in terms of observable behaviors. C. both emphasizes empiricism and defines problems in terms of observable behaviors. D. neither emphasizes empiricism nor defines problems in terms of observable behaviors.
When children think only in terms of what they can physically handle or can imagine handling, they are in the ______ stage
a. sensory-motor c. preoperational b. concrete-operational d. formal-operational
The _____________ is associated with normal recognition memory and spatial memory. It also projects information to cortical regions that give memories meaning and connects them with other connected memories.
a. hippocampus b. amygdala c. cerebellum d. neurotransmitters
Long-term memory is divided into
A. declarative memory and procedural memory. B. explicit memory and implicit memory. C. semantic memory and sensory memory. D. episodic memory and factual memory.