A researcher desires to understand the effect of child abuse on an individual's personality and attitude. He forms two groups of participants for the study. The first group contains people who were abused during their childhood and the second group contains people who had normal childhood. This type of division of people based on actual differences rather than through random assignment is called _____ design
A. ad lib
B. ex post facto
C. variable
D. randomized
Answer: B. ex post facto
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a. Ethical perspective b. Strengths perspective c. Oppositional perspective d. Pyschoanalytic perspective
When clients foist their own unfinished business onto the counselor this is called:
A. conversion B. adaptation C. congruence D. transference
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a. Biological b. Genetic c. Social d. Behavioral
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a. the client may try to usurp the therapist's authority and shift the focus. b. issues related to low self-esteem will be the client's preferred focus. c. focusing on virtues may make the client more anxious. d. identification of character strengths may exaggerate the client's inflated self-view.