In a study of the effectiveness of a stress-reduction treatment on psychological well-being in cancer patients, the measurements of well-being taken before the treatment would be represented by which of the following:
What will be an ideal response?
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N.A. has a damaged hippocampus, and psychiatrists visit him weekly for two years. During these visits, they test his memory and IQ. One of the limitations of this case study is that it ____.?
a. ?may cause N.A. to behave differently because he knows he is being observed b. ?is susceptible to confounds and experimenter bias c. ?may only contain information the psychiatrists deem important d. ?only shows cause and effect, not relationships between variables
Asian countries such as China or Japan are very collectivistic in social orientation, giving emphasis to cooperation, loyalty to groups, and conformity. It would be expected that in these countries,
a. nonshared environmental influences will be strong. b. shared environmental influences will be strong. c. heritability on all traits will be weak. d. kinships will be impossible to calculate.
According to the chapter I'm Warning You about compliance to warnings, "rules of thumb" that we use to
simplify tasks in order to make quick and competent decisions are termed (a) confounds (b) heuristics (c) informational functions (d) confederates
A good theory should
a) be incapable of being proven wrong. b) make sense of obscure phenomena. c) develop directly out of observations. d) explain cause-effect relationships.