Carina is young, affluent, intelligent, and suffering from mild depression. Lacey is older,less well off financially, less intelligent, and is suffering from a severe form of schizophrenia. __________ is the better candidatefor psychoanalysis on the basis of her _________.

Dr. Hall found a positive correlation between depression and child abuse; depressed mothers were more likely to abuse their children. Which of the following explanations illustrates the third-variable problem?

a) Abusing one's children may cause depression. b) Poverty may cause both depression and child abuse. c) The relationship between depression and child abuse may apply only to women. d) Abused children may have a predisposition to become depressed.

When a difference is considered "significant", it indicates that the

difference is probably a. meaningful and profound b. due to chance and chance alone c. not due to chance alone d. none of these