Which of the Following Statements Has Empirical Evidence Shown to Be

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements has empirical evidence shown to be TRUE?

• A) To change people's behavior toward members of ethnic minority groups, we must
• First change their attitudes.
• B) Personality tests reveal your basic motives, including those you may not be aware of.
• C) The major cause of forgetting is that memory traces decay or fade as time passes,
• Resulting in a loss of memory as one ages.
• D) Psychotherapy has had its greatest success in the treatment of milder disorders, not
• With psychotic patients who have lost touch with reality.

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