When participants are selected because they have or have not experienced something unique in the real world (e.g., they have lived in a homeless shelter/not lived in a shelter), researchers call this type of independent variable a(n) ______ treatment.
A. selected
B. experience
C. subject
D. natural
Ans: D
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a. biological aspects of sexuality. b. survey results on teenagers' sexual activities. c. social factors related to sexuality. d. emotional factors related to sexuality.
Rogers stated that an effective therapist should be able to see and feel what the client is experiencing, a quality known as
a. unconditional positive regard. b. conditional positive regard. c. authenticity. d. empathy.
Positive reinforcers:
a. weaken behaviors they follow. b. are always learned. c. strengthen behaviors they follow. d. are always unlearned.
A disease that destroyed astrocytes would be expected to:
a. decrease a neurons’s aerobic energy metabolism. b. prevent electrical impulses from traveling down axons. c. lead to foreign substances entering the brain from the circulatory system. d. increase the density of dendritic spines.