In an experiment to assess the effects of a new hay fever drug, two groups are used. One group is given the drug while the second group is given a pill that contains no medicine but looks and tastes exactly like the one containing the drug
The group receiving the nonmedicinal pill is called the ______ group.
a. independent b. b. experimental
c. dependent
d. control
d
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Some of the most prominent modern theories of the mood disorders focus primarily on cognitive factors. You learned in Chapter 9 that some theorists believe the experience of emotion is heavily influenced by cognitive factors. In what ways do some of these cognitive theories of emotion agree with theories about cognitive factors in the etiology of the mood disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
One source of anxiety that is untreatable with systematic desensitization is
a. biologically-relevant fear. b. stimulus naivety. c. a skill deficit. d. social anxiety.
Following pretesting, Binet and Simon retained for inclusion in their intelligence test the items that
a. were more familiar to boys than to girls. b. discriminated smart children from dull children. c. gave an advantage to Caucasians relative to minorities. d. were so difficult that only 10 percent of children got them right.
As information is stored in short-term memory, our nervous system uses interconnected groups of neurons called:
a. neuronal nodes c. hierarchical assemblies b. neural assemblies d. dendrite clusters