The first step in the scientific process is to identify a problem, which entails all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. performing a literature review
B. determining an area of interest
C. developing a research hypothesis
D. conducting the study


Answer: D

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a. Insight is necessary for behavior change to occur. b. Therapy should focus on behavior change and not attitude change. c. Therapy is not complete unless actions follow verbalizations. d. A good working relationship between client and therapist is necessary for behavior change to occur

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Which of the following students provides the most accurate statement about the research on mental imagery?

a. Susan: "There is a negative correlation between the size of a mental rotation and the number of seconds required to perform that mental rotation." b. Shirin: "When people make judgments about the shapes of U.S. states, their judgments for mental images are similar to their judgments for physical stimuli." c. Dirk: "In general, the research on mental imagery supports the propositional perspective on mental imagery, rather than the analog perspective." d. Cyndi: "People make judgments about complex mental shapes in roughly the same way as they make judgments about complex physical shapes; but this similarity doesn't hold true for simple mental shapes."

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A characteristic of all endophenotypes is that they are ____

a. associated with a person's physical environment b. inheritable c. manifest only in an individual who has the disorder d. detectable on brain scans

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A Reference section differs from a bibliography in that a Reference list includes

a. all relevant citations. b. only articles cited in text. c. only empirically proven research. d. both scientific and non-scientific research.

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