Before choosing which experiment condition a participant belongs in, the researcher flips a coin. What is the researcher likely doing?
A. eliminating all confounding variables
B. assigning the participant to the control group
C. assigning the participant to the experimental group
D. randomly assigning the participant to a condition
Answer: D
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A. bodily kinesthetic intelligence B. logical mathematical intelligence C. spatial intelligence D. linguistic intelligence
Which of the following statements about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is true?
A) Boys are diagnosed three to nine times as often as girls. B) Girls are diagnosed twice as often as boys. C) ADHD affects about 15 percent of U.S. school children. D) All children with ADHD are hyperactive.
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a. recategorization b. controlled processing c. cooperative empowerment d. pole-shifting
Other Psychotic-spectrum disorders
What will be an ideal response?