After being bitten by a dog, Jose finds that he feels afraid whenever he sees a dog. He goes for treatment, where he is gradually exposed to dogs, until he can be in the same room with a dog without feeling any fear
Three weeks later, while walking in his neighborhood, Jose hears a dog barking viciously. For a few weeks after this, his fear returns. This shows
a. the treatment had no effect.
b. extinction.
c. stimulus-stimulus expectancy.
d. spontaneous recovery.
d. spontaneous recovery.
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A) Sequential design B) Cross-longitudinal design C) Longitudinal case study D) Correlational study
Which of the following is an example of a nonequivalent control group posttest-only design?
A. A researcher records coffee consumption among undergraduate and graduate students each day during the week of final exams. B. A researcher gives psychology students a life skills training and records the time it takes psychology students, compared to sociology students, to complete the life skills assessment given after the training was complete. C. A researcher records the weight of younger compared to older patients before and after a surgery. D. A researcher records the weight of older patients before surgery.