The 1995 Consumer Reports Study Found That ______

question 18

Multiple Choice

The 1995 Consumer Reports study found that ______.

• A) less than 40% of respondents reported that therapy was beneficial
• B) longer therapy generally produced greater benefit
• C) the profession of the person providing the therapy made a significant difference, such that clinical psychologists produced better outcomes than psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors
• D) shorter therapy tended to produce greater benefit

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Definitions:

Y-variable

In statistical modeling and experiments, the dependent variable that is influenced or predicted by another variable (X-variable), used to measure outcomes or results.

Opposite Directions

A term indicating movements or trends that are diametrically contrary to each other in a physical or metaphorical sense.

Upward Sloping

A term often used to describe a line on a graph that shows an increase in a variable as another variable increases, indicative of a direct relationship.

Positively Related

A term describing the relationship between two variables where they move in the same direction; when one increases, the other also increases, and vice versa.