When Choosing a Self-Help Book, Consumers Should

question 117

Multiple Choice

When choosing a self-help book, consumers should:

• A) look for authors who are confident enough to assure change.
• B) make sure the program it promotes has been empirically tested.
• C) make sure that subliminal tapes are included for night-time learning.
• D) look for an author who includes many anecdotes showing the success of the program.

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Definitions:

Cladistic Character

A feature of organisms used in cladistics to help establish evolutionary relationships, focusing on shared derived characteristics.

Ancestral Character

a trait or characteristic that was present in the common ancestor of a group of species and may be retained or altered in its descendants.

Hair

A thin strand of keratin that grows from the skin of mammals.

Shared Homologous Structures

Anatomical features that are similar in different species due to shared ancestry, indicating evolutionary relationships.