Seven-year-old Brian has been diagnosed as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. What can his parents and teachers do to help him cope with this disability?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should point out that the effects of ADHD can be abated through
medication (drug therapy), psychological therapy, and restructuring the home and
school environment. Further, students should discuss the possibilities of
mainstreaming, integration, inclusion, and resource rooms. Students should
specifically describe each of these treatments/responses.
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A. Government funding does not cover the experiment actually being done. B. when subjects have refused to participate in the study C. when setting subjects up for subsequent studies in coming years D. to capture authentic responses to the experimental condition
Gender-schema theory proposes:
a. that gender identity, stability, and constancy occur in a predictable order. b. a concept called "conservation of gender." c. that gender is a category around which children organize their world. d. none of these.
Statistical measures for locating a single score that tends to be near the center of a distribution and is most representative or descriptive of all scores in a distribution are called ______.
A. measurability B. central tendency C. sampling variability D. variability
The level of significance, or alpha, in psychological research is generally set at
A. .01. B. .05. C. .10. D. .50.