At the 1896 convention of the American Psychological Association, when Lightner Witmer encouraged his colleagues to “throw light upon the problems that confront humanity,” he meant that they should
A) develop a diagnostic manual.
B) open psychological clinics.
C) convince local politicians to improve the conditions of inpatient facilities for the seriously mentally ill.
D) organize and lobby for the right to prescribe medication.
B) open psychological clinics.
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a. curvilinear relationship. b. effect of extraneous variables. c. natural experiment. d. placebo effect.
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