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A researcher believes that depressive symptoms will be reduced when family members give attention to competent behavior and express disinterest when depressive behavior is exhibited. In this example, attention is the ____ and depressive symptoms are the ____.
 
  a. confounding variable; manipulated variable
  b. dependent variable; independent variable
  c. independent variable; dependent variable
  d. experimental variable; control variable

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If the results of a study are due to factors other than those included in the research investigation, the study is said to have ____.
 
  a. poor reliability
 b. low statistical significance
  c. a low base rate
 d. poor internal validity


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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