Humans live in deserts, jungles, mountains, frenzied cities, placid retreats, and space stations, which illustrates how our mental abilities have helped us to be more
a. practical.
b. future-oriented.
c. communal.
d. adaptable.
D
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Researchers have found that young children usually distribute rewards and goods equally to all in a group. From 6 to 13 years of age, there is an increasing tendency to consider whether a person __________.
A. has destroyed goods and does not deserve a reward B. has worked harder than others and thus merits a bigger reward C. is older than them and therefore deserves a bigger share D. is younger than them and therefore deserves a smaller share
Distinguish an experiment from a natural (quasi-) experiment
What will be an ideal response?
Of the following, which is a valid criticism of efficacy studies of psychotherapy treatments?
a) They show artificially inflated results for mental illnesses of higher severity. b) They focus on disorder-specific treatments and processes rather than looking at common themes across different disorders. c) They are only useful in a correlational design; that is, they cannot show cause-and-effect relationships. d) They take many years to conduct and require very large numbers of participants.
Using both independent and dependent variables is associated with which of the following types of research used in psychology?
a. experimentation b. naturalistic observation c. correlation d. correlation and experimentation