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 best 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.
b
Psychology
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a. same-sex peer relationships decline dramatically. b. children's friends tend to be almost exclusively the same gender. c. children tend to have the same number of same- and opposite-sex friends. d. girls tend to play in larger groups than boys.
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