Explain how we can compare two different populations in a research study.
What will be an ideal response?
This is done by drawing a sample from each population (separately for the two populations or two samples randomly assigned to different conditions to represent the populations for those conditions) and comparing the mean scores for the two samples using an independent samples t-test.
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Dr. Shrieder is teaching a course where she emphasizes the study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences. Which of the following would be an appropriate title for this class?
a. The Psychology of Health b. Defining Death Over Time and Place c. Introduction to Bioethics d. Thanatology 101: End of Life Issues
Exercises that are taught to a client to help him/her manage physical arousal so that it is less strong and threatening are called
a. relaxation training. b. breathing retraining. c. somatic control exercises. d. psychoeducation.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Focusing on only the most important details about the crime during the initial interview of an eyewitness may actually increase the eyewitness's memory of other aspects of the crime 2. The hippocampus and the upper temporal lobe become activated when Abigail remembers the voice of her deceased grandfather 3. Memory retrieval is a single, identifiable process in the brain 4. Explicit memories can affect our current behaviour, even if they are outside of conscious awareness 5. If you can consciously recall a memory, it is an explicit memory
Improvement caused not by the actual process of therapy, but by a client's expectation that therapy will help is known as
a. the therapy placebo effect. b. the therapeutic alliance. c. the all-or-nothing effect. d. covert reinforcement.