_____ is a threatening event that has a relatively long duration and no readily apparent time limit
a. Acute stress c. Chronic stress
b. Frustration d. Internal conflict
C
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a. 24 b. 25 c. 26 d. 48
You are conducting an experiment to determine if listening to music while studying improves learning. If there was no difference between the test performance of the experimental and control groups, then we can conclude that
a. extraneous variables were not controlled. b. the two groups were not randomly assigned. c. listening to music while studying improves learning. d. listening to music while studying had no effect on learning.
Recent theoretical discussion on Piaget's stages has focused on the issue of whether
a. Piaget identified too few distinct stages. b. there are individual differences among children. c. cognition develops continuously instead of in stages. d. Piaget thought children are generally smarter than they are.
Of the following, which is a valid criticism of efficacy studies of psychotherapy treatments?
a) They show artificially inflated results for mental illnesses of higher severity. b) They focus on disorder-specific treatments and processes rather than looking at common themes across different disorders. c) They are only useful in a correlational design; that is, they cannot show cause-and-effect relationships. d) They take many years to conduct and require very large numbers of participants.