What Three Factors Can Increase Aggregate Hours

question 126

Essay

What three factors can increase aggregate hours?
Of the three, explain which is the only one that can be sustained over long periods of time.

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Definitions:

Placebo Control Group

In a therapy outcome study, group of people whose treatment is an inactive substance (to compare with the effects of a drug) or a nontheory-based therapy providing social support (to compare with the effects of psychotherapy).

Ethical Problem

A situation that requires a person to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical).

Withholding Treatment

The ethical and medical decision not to administer a specific medical treatment to a patient, often under circumstances where the treatment will not improve quality of life or extend it in a meaningful way.

Demand Characteristics

Factors in an experiment that suggest to participants how the experimenter would like them to behave.