The application of learning theory and principles to the treatment of disordered behavior is called behavior therapy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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People with do not have full-blown episodes of depression, mania, or hypomania, but the symptoms of hypomania and depression have lasted over at least a two-year period
a. hypomania type I b. bipolar type I c. cyclothymia d. borderline type I
You are working with the Fa family from Beijing, China. They immigrated to the US two years ago, and their 6th grade daughter, Meuy, is experiencing some difficulties in the classroom. The classroom teacher tells you he thinks that Meuy feels as though she is "losing" some aspects of her Chinese culture as her parents work hard to adapt and fit into US culture. Meuy and her family are probably experiencing which level of acculturation?
A. acculturated B. traditional C. marginal D. Bicultural E. Compensatorily culture
The research on infants' speech perception suggests that
a. infants can appreciate phoneme similarities shortly after birth, but they cannot appreciate phoneme differences until they are almost 12 months old. b. infants have such limited skills that psychologists cannot design appropriate research on speech perception in infants younger than 6 months of age. c. infants can perceive the differences between a variety of similar phonemes; this ability is present either at birth or during the first weeks of life. d. the perception of phonemes does not change after the age of 6 months.
Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The 150 epileptics constitute _________
a. the dependent variable c. a statistic b. a parameter d. the independent variable