After recent research showed that the caregivers of family members with developmental disabilities showed significant stress reduction when taught simple mindfulness techniques during everyday activities, Liese wonders whether the same might be true of the caregivers of family members with Alzheimer's disease. Liese will recruit participants from a local peer support program for caregivers but,
knowing how stressful caregiving can be, worries about how she will create an ethically sound control group. Liese is most concerned with ____.
a. right to service
b. external validity
c. deception
d. non-maleficence
a
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There is a very strong association between a child's early information processing capabilities and later measured of IQ.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The investigator showed a card to a child and asked: "Are there more radishes or more vegetables in this picture?" What is the investigator likely to be studying?
a. Conservation b. Combinatorial skills c. Identity equivalence d. Classification skills
One hypothesis regarding depression that can be drawn from an evolutionary perspective is that it results from a mismatch between ______ and ______.
a. current demands of society; the brain and nervous system b. parenting style; child personality c. environment; genotype d. available resources; social competition
Emmy takes her autistic child to a psychiatrist for an evaluation. The psychiatrist suggests that
the child's autism developed as a result of perceptual deficits. According to this argument, rather than associating Emmy with food, warmth, and the clothing she provides, her child focuses exclusively on the food and clothing, and is thus unable to develop normal emotional bonds with Emmy. This psychiatrist is most likely a ______. a. psychodynamic theorist c. cognitive-learning theorist b. humanistic theorist d. biological theorist