What is one of the major uses of case studies?
a. studying unusual conditions
b. verifying the effectiveness of therapies
c. validating correlations established in the laboratory
d. establishing the borderline between normal and abnormal behaviors
Answer: a.
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a. negatively correlated b. uncorrelated c. positively correlated d. both dependent variables
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