Based on research cited in the text, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. In men, body dissatisfaction is linked to the desire to be lean and muscular.
b. One in seven college women report that they would be embarrassed to buy a candy bar in a store.
c. Research indicates that media portrayals of the thin ideal, as well as peer influences, negatively affect body image and self-esteem in girls as young as three.
d. Recovery from eating disorders is typically a long-term process and continued symptoms and relapses are quite common.
e. Despite the attention on eating disorders in the U.S., eating disorders are actually more common in non- Western countries.
e
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which cognitive event is hypothesized as contributing to the development and maintenance of major depression?
a. self-efficacy b. learned helplessness c. reciprocal determinism d. all-or-none thinking e. an internal locus of control
Juan, a psychologist, is studying participants' perceptions of the attractiveness of several deodorants in a laboratory. However, as he conducts his study, people are cooking their lunches in the cafeteria nearby, and the smells of onions and fish are making their way into the laboratory. Juan should stop his experiment for the day because the odors of the food is most likely a
A. placebo. B. nocebo. C. control variable. D. confounding variable.
The term ________ refers to the degree to which your research design evaluates the hypothesis that it was intended to evaluate.
A. external validity B. reliability C. internal validity D. internal consistency