You are a psychotherapist who has a client with a unique combination of symptoms. With your client's permission, you write an article summarizing and interpreting those symptoms. The method of research being used here is:
A. content analysis.
B. archival research.
C. a quasi-experiment.
D. the case history method.
Answer: D
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A. Sleep apnea B. Narcolepsy C. Sleep terror D. REM behavior disorder
A type of population that constitutes only a portion of all members of a population that can be clearly identified and directly sampled from is called ______.
A. target population B. accessible population C. sample D. representative sample
Studies of overregularization – the phenomenon in which children say "mouses" or falled" instead of "mice" or "fell" -- indicate that
a. children make this grammatical error in approximately 25 percent of utterances in which irregular verb forms would be correct b. overregularization increases from the age of two years to school age c. the more often parents correctly use an irregular form, the less often children overregularize it d. young children rely on memory rather than grammatical rules to produce both regular and irregular verb forms
Spiegel and his colleagues (1989) randomly assigned breast cancer patients to either a series of weekly meetings to discuss their problems and fears or to a control group. Based on other research on social support, what would you expect to happen in this experiment? Women who met in groups would
a. feel worse, but live longer.
b. feel better and live longer.
c. feel better about their illness, but not live longer.
d. not feel any different, but live longer.