Research indicates a link between social anxiety disorder and substance abuse or dependence. Explain the possible causal relationship in this linkage

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People who are affected by this disorder and experience social anxiety may use alcohol to reduce the discomfort and lessen the distress of the situation. This may occur before the event itself in preparation for the experience.

Psychology

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The first 10 students who arrived for the Friday lecture filled out a questionnaire on their attitudes toward the instructor. The first 10 who were late for the lecture were spotted, and afterward filled out the same questionnaire. The appropriate design for testing the significance of the difference between the means is

a. related samples t-test. c. one-sample t-test. b. independent samples t-test. d. z-test.

Psychology

When someone has a combination of alleles for a given gene, they are said to be ___________.

a. dominant allele b. recessive allele c. homozygous d. heterozygous

Psychology

Which field of study explores links between development, cognitive processes, and the brain?

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Psychology

The Mann-Whitney Utest is used to analyze data that represent _____ measurement from

between-subjects experiments using levels of an independent variable. a. interval; two b. ordinal; two c. interval; three or more d. ordinal; three or more

Psychology