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Theories:Empirical evidence supports that a causal relationship exists between:

Assessment:An investigator wants to test the hypothesis that the average number of aggressive acts that children exhibit in an unfamiliar situation is related to gender and sociability (“sociable” or “shy”). He obtains a sample of 30 boys and 30 girls who have been rated as either sociable or shy and then has observers count the number of aggressive acts each child exhibits in an unfamiliar situation during a 30-minute play period. The best statistical test to analyze the data the investigator collects in this study is which of the following?

Social Psychology:Which research result would provide evidence that aggression is a heritable trait?

Social Psychology:The belief that “they’re all the same” best epitomizes the:

Affective Bases of Behavior:A person goes through a stressful and exciting haunted house. According to the opponent-process theory, the initial fear and excitement is the a-process. What would the b-process be, and what would its characteristics be?

Affective Bases of Behavior:A person goes through a stressful and exciting haunted house. According to the opponent-process theory, the initial fear and excitement is the a-process. What would the b-process be, and what would its characteristics be?

Assessment:Using the deviation IQ is preferred to using the ratio IQ because the deviation IQ:

Biological Bases of Behavior:Which is the area of the brain in which lesions cause indifference or apathy?

Ethics:Regarding the use of behavioral therapy techniques, it is especially important that therapists show careful concern for ethical problems inherent in the use of ____ stimuli with relatively powerless clients.

Social Psychology:Popular wisdom is often contradictory, as with the following two sayings: 1) “opposites attract” and 2) “birds of a feather flock together.” Research on the relationship between similarity and liking suggests that: