Professor Cole is discussing aggression as a dependent variable in his experiment. He says that aggression is the amount of time that a child holds a toy weapon. This best illustrates a(n):
a. operational definition of playing with a toy weapon.
b. confounding variable.
c. operational definition of aggression.
d. nominal level of measurement.
C
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a. rely more on the automatic processing system b. rely more on the controlled processing system c. conform more d. be more rigid in their thinking
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A) extremely high B) extremely low C) normal D) abnormal
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a. are significantly shorter and less complex b. are no different than the dendrites in younger brains c. are significantly longer and more complex d. are significantly longer but far less complex, with fewer branches
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a. Sigmund Freud b. Carl Jung c. Carl Rogers d. Alfred Adler