An insurance company is interested in the most effective treatment for acute depression. Based on recent research, what is the best advice that one could give to the company?

a. "Medication, interpersonal psychotherapy, and cognitive-behavioral treatments are all equally effective."
b. "Interpersonal psychotherapy is far more effective than either medication or cognitive-behavioral therapy."
c. "Belief in treatment is enough—even placebo pills are as effective as psychotherapy or medication."
d. "Only antidepressant medication is effective."

a

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a. creating a culturally-fair test that emphasized verbal items. b. creating a test that could be administered to groups of individuals. c. including nonverbal, or performance, subtests. d. including items that emphasized the assessment of interpersonal skills.

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The American Psychological Association and the Society for Research in Child Development have developed a list of rules that researchers who work with children must follow. Collectively, these rules are known as

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