In their second experiment on the use of modeling to help elderly patients overcome their fears in a bathing situation, Downs, Rosenthal, and Lichstein found that:
a. few, if any, patients overcome their fears
b. the control participants were able to overcome almost all of their fears
c. patients in the guided participation modeling condition successfully completed the bathing activity
d. almost all the patients became disruptive and acted negatively toward the therapist
c
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A. reduced conversations between the her and the children B. increased overgeneralization C. increased vocabulary D. increased complexity of deep structure of her children's speech
This is set by the researcher at a low value (such as .05) to allow rejection of the null hypothesis only when it is very unlikely that the sample mean came from the distribution of sample means for the null hypothesis.
A. p value B. Cohen's d C. รก level D. critical region
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a) operant conditioning b) cognitive dissonance c) classical conditioning d) positive reinforcement
Physician-assisted suicide is legal
a. nowhere in the United States. b. in only three states. c. in most states. d. everywhere in the United States.