During a study using the behavioral research strategy, it is common to prepare a list of behaviors called behavioral categories before the actual observation begins. The least likely purpose for this procedure is to ____
a. ensure the objectivity of the measurements
b. evaluate the reliability of the measurements
c. provide an operational definition for the variables being measured
d. simplify the recording task for the observer(s)
b
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b. after some manipulation. c. during an experiment. d. at the population level.
Explain how a grief reaction can become a disorder. Is it possible to predict who will develop complicated grief?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is a finding that supports the idea that anxiety disorders are stress related?
a. Correlational studies have proven cause and effect of stress with anxiety. b. Stress and anxiety are the same thing. c. Patients with panic disorder had experienced a dramatic increase in stress in the month prior to the onset of their disorder. d. Stress always causes anxiety, so they must be related.
Every time meiosis happens in one cell, ____ new cells will be produced, each with half of the chromosomes of the original cell
a. 2 b. 4 c. 8 d. 16