Based on research about the relationship of parental attachment and adaptation to college,             students had the most difficulty adapting to college during their first year.

Transpersonal psychology seeks to establish itself as an academic discipline. Which of the following best describes its status?

a) It has not yet been integrated into any psychology departments in the United States. b) It has not been granted formal status by the American Psychological Association. c) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual has not yet been modified to include a diagnostic category for "religious or spiritual problems." d) Some (e.g., Tart, 2009) think the field will never be established because psychology cannot be both scientifically and spiritually oriented.

__________ permit(s) inferences about cause-and-effect relationships in experimental designs

A) Using treatment conditions that already exist in the real world B) Manipulating or controlling changes in the dependent variable C) Random assignment of participants to treatment conditions D) Correlations between two or more variables