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Psychological Therapies 621 Freeman & Watts, 1937). Walter Freeman and James W. Watts modified Moniz’s tech- nique and devel ...

622 CHAPTER 15 the brain mechanisms underlying them, including PTSD, depression, stroke, spinal cord injuries, and ADHD, along w ...

Psychological Therapies 623 Practice Quiz How much do you remember? Pick the best answer. Why are antidepressants taking the pl ...

624 CHAPTER 15 Chapter Summary Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Past to Present 15.1 Describe how the treatment of psycholo ...

Psychological Therapies 625 Action Therapies: Behavior Therapies and Cognitive Therapies 4 Explain how behavior therapists use ...

626 CHAPTER 15 Biomedical Therapies 10 Categorize types of drugs used to treat psychological disorders. Biomedical therapies ...

Psychological Therapies 627 how to approach and pet the dog and not grab its tail. Eventually, Kayla was asked to come over and ...

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A-1 Appendix A Statistics in Psychology A- Why study statistics? Psychology is a science, and scientists must have ways of descr ...

A-2 APPENDIX A In this appendix we will take a look at describing data—seeing if groups differ from each other and seeing if two ...

Statistics in Psychology A-3 Just by looking at this table, it is clear that typical people drink between four and eight glasses ...

A-4 APPENDIX A Figure A.3 The Normal Curve The normal curve, also known as the bell curve because of its unique shape, is often ...

Statistics in Psychology A-5 Figure A.6 A Bimodal Distribution When a distribution is bimodal, it means that there are two high ...

A-6 APPENDIX A What does this mean? S is a symbol called sigma. It is a Greek letter and it is also called the summation sign. ...

Statistics in Psychology A-7 MODE The mode is another measure of central tendency, in which the most frequent score is taken as ...

A-8 APPENDIX A when there are extreme scores in the distribution. For example, if you look at Table A.2, the range of those IQ s ...

Statistics in Psychology A-9 This procedure may look very complicated. Let us assure you that computers and inexpensive calculat ...

A-10 APPENDIX A Practice Quiz How much do you remember? Pick the best answer. Dr. Kopelowoski has just given an examination to ...

Statistics in Psychology A-11 are differences between the two groups that have nothing to do with the manipulations of the exper ...

A-12 APPENDIX A If you do take a statistics course, you will find out that most analyses are done by computers, and you don’t ha ...