Which of the following is not a difficulty of running an RCT?

A. It is difficult to know whether improvements in treated clients were due to the new intervention or simply the passage of time
B. Drop-out rates are often very high
C. It is difficult to make sure that outcome assessments are objective and unbiased
D. The researcher’s excitement about an intervention may result in that intervention doing better than it’s comparison


A. It is difficult to know whether improvements in treated clients were due to the new intervention or simply the passage of time

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Why are certain fine motor skills, such as those required to tie shoelaces, challenging for many young children?

What will be an ideal response?

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In a longitudinal study of the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, what was one of the findings?

A. By 4 years old, the negative effects of exposure to alcohol were no longer observed. B. Children who had been exposed to alcohol prenatally were delayed in motor development. C. A positive family environment could not compensate for the negative effects of alcohol exposure. D. There were no enduring effects of alcohol for women who consumed 1 to 2 ounces per day.

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Which of the following it true regarding differences in the ways men and women experience and react to jealousy?

A) ?Men are more likely than women to acknowledge feeling jealous. B) ?A man's jealousy is more likely to focus on his partner's emotional involvement with another person, whereas a woman's jealousy is more likely to focus on her partner's sexual involvement with another. C) ?Women are more likely than men to admit attempting to deliberately provoking jealousy in their partners. D) ?Men tend to blame themselves when a conflict over jealousy arises, whereas women typically attribute their jealousy to a third party or to their partner's behavior.

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