After reviewing previously published studies, psychologist Kyle Conlon and his colleagues wanted to know "Will people lose more weight if they maintain a goal focus or if they maintain an achievement focus?" At this point in their research, Conlon and his colleagues were completing which step in the scientific method?
a. publishing their own results
b. testing a hypothesis
c. building a theory
d. defining the problem
D
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A man has persistent fantasies about having sex with non-consenting people. Although he has not acted on them, these fantasies have lasted for almost a year and cause the man severe distress. What diagnosis is appropriate and why?
a. paraphilia, because the man has distressing fantasies with nonconsenting others even though he has not acted on them b. no mental disorder, because unless the man acts on his fantasies, there is no form of sexual deviance c. sexual dysfunction, because the man is not able to achieve sexual arousal normally d. gender dysphoria, because the man has fantasies about having sex with non-consenting people
During middle childhood ___________________________________________
a. children are less content than in adolescence mostly because they do not have the social skills required to manage peer conflict b. it is harder for children to hide their emotions than in early childhood because they become so much more intense at this period of development c. children are aware that they can experience two contradictory emotions at once d. the ability to self-regulate decreases from early childhood, mostly because of the many different contexts they experience
How do escape and avoidance behaviors maintain anxiety about a feared situation? Provide an example to demonstrate your understanding. Please discuss each element in your example
What will be an ideal response?
___________ is the term that Popper used to refer to those instances where an empirical test has been passed, i.e., the theory has not yet been disconfirmed or falsified.
a. verisimilitude b. corroborated c. correspondence d. commensurability