Which research method involves watching behaviors as they occur, without intervening or altering the behaviors in any way?

Researchers (Barker, Dembo, & Lewin, 1941) frustrated some children in a study by making them view attractive toys that were kept out of their reach. Based on research presented in the chapter, what is most likely to happen when they did allow the children to play with the toys? They found that these frustrated children were more likely to

a. play with the forbidden toys longer. b. ignore the forbidden toys. c. act aggressively with the toys. d. aggress toward the adult experimenters.

You go to your therapist for the first time and she tells you to lie on a couch in a slightly darkened room. She then asks you to talk about anything that comes to mind, no matter how trivial it may seem. What kind of psychotherapy are you undergoing?

a. systematic desensitization c. flooding b. traditional psychoanalysis d. person centered therapy