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In a study of the effects of exercise on mood, the researcher randomly assigned participants to a group that exercised daily or did not exercise at all for two weeks. The researcher measured the participants’ mood before and after the two week period. What is the independent variable in this study?

Whose work laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern day version of talk therapy?

The Psych for Your Life feature in Ch. 1 of your textbook presented five research-based suggestions to help you study more effectively. Which of these is NOT one of those suggestions?

_____ became the first Black American president of the American Psychological Association in 1970.

Dr. Bremmer investigates mental processes, including reasoning and thinking, problem solving, memory, perception, and language. Dr. Bremmer is a _____ psychologist.

A negative correlation is found when one variable _____ and the second variable _____.

Neuroscience, an area within the _____ perspective, emphasizes the importance of the brain and nervous system in explaining people’s behavior.

In collectivistic cultures, a person’s sense of identity is:

The established science most responsible for the emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline was:

The part of the human body with the largest number of neurons is the brain, with the _____ having the second largest number of neurons.