A researcher interested in resolving the issue of whether emotional states play a causal role in cancer must answer which of the following questions?
a. Is Type A personality a consistent trait?
b. Are people at risk for cancer also at risk for coronary heart disease?
c. Does knowledge that one has cancer cause changes in emotional states, or vice versa?
d. Do we have enough retrospective data to make an unambiguous conclusion?
c
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a. higher anxiety levels were associated with more accurate eyewitness identification. b. higher anxiety levels were associated with less accurate eyewitness identification. c. heart rate corresponded to arousal level. d. heart rate corresponded to the number of perpetrators encountered.
Your friend's aunt just had a prescription filled. When you look up the brand name for the drug on the Internet, you discover the drug primarily affects levels of dopamine in the brain. Based on this information, it is most likely that your friend's aunt is being treated for:
a. obsessive-compulsive disorder b. depression c. schizophrenia d. Alzheimer's disease
Five minutes after a baby is born, its heart rate is 78 beats per minute, it has a pink body with blue extremities, flaccid muscle tone, and irregular, slow respirations. When stimulated by tickling its feet the baby grimaces
What is this baby's Apgar score? 1 2 3 4
Robert Siegler investigated the type of information that a child takes in during a problem-solving task and also what strategies he or she formulates when attempting to solve the problem. Siegler called his model the _____ approach.
A. rule assessment B. fuzzy-trace C. autobiographical D. constraint-seeking