Confronting anxiety-reducing behaviors long enough to allow the anxiety to dissipate is called habituation

To save time, you assign the first fifty people who sign up to participate in your study to the experimental condition and the next fifty to the control condition. The interpretations you could draw from the study will be severely limited because

a. you needed to carry out a within-subjects design. b. you failed to use random assignment to conditions. c. you did not have enough participants to conduct your study. d. you need to include another control condition to draw accurate conclusions.

Children in middle childhood make social comparisons. Which of the following statements best reflects a 10-year-old's social comparisons?

"I'm good at spelling but there are three kids in my class who are better than I." "I'm a fast runner and I like soccer." "I'm really good at math." "Johnny pushed me and then took my toy truck!"