Dr. Enzo is studying the effects of meditation vs. medication on the anxiety levels of men and women. What is the dependent variable in her study?
A. meditation
B. medication
C. anxiety levels
D. gender
Answer: C
You might also like to view...
Short-term memory weakens with age, whereas long-term memory improves.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Based on the information presented in your textbook, why do you think that women might be at a higher risk of developing osteoporosis than men?
a. Estrogen depletion is a causal factor in the development of osteoporosis, so when women experience a drop in estrogen it is a greater influence than for men. b. Women tend to exercise less than men, and a lack of weight-bearing exercise is related to the development of osteoporosis. c. A deficit of calcium absorption is a major culprit in osteoporosis, and women tend to drink less milk than men, particularly during infancy, when bones are forming. d. Osteoporosis is a "primary X-delimited chromosomal" problem, and since women have two X chromosomes they have twice as much risk factor.
The proportion of variation in the criterion that is knowable in advance from knowledge of the test scores can be found by
a. construct-irrelevant variance. b. the validity coefficient. c. squaring the validity coefficient. d. the square root of the validity coefficient.
Erikson's theory may be called "post-Freudian" because
A. he built his theory on foundations that Freud laid. B. he rejected Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality. C. Freud personally approved of Erikson's personality theory. D. he only accepted the theories of post-Freudian psychoanalysts.