In a study of the effectiveness of cognitive therapy on anxiety, fifty anxious patients are divided into two groups. One group gets cognitive therapy, the other a fake kind of therapy that should have no benefit. However, the patients can tell that the second form of treatment is a fake. The study is weak because ____
a. its placebo condition did not control for expectancy effects
b. it did not include an independent variable
c. it confuses experimental designs with correlational designs
d. it did not have a placebo condition
a
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a. accurate b. the same c. consonant d. conflicting
What category/style of communication skills do people tend to prefer when they want to discuss strategies or learn more about a topic?
a. Affectively-oriented b. Status-oriented c. Instrumentally-oriented d. Network-oriented
In later adulthood, confidence is sustained and bolstered by
a. role loss. b. behavioral slowing. c. a supportive social network. d. social isolation.
Right now, the words in this sentence are being registered on the retina of your eye. This representation on your retina is called
a. sensory memory. b. the template. c. the proximal stimulus. d. the distal stimulus