A researcher designs an intervention directed at reducing daytime fatigue. The researcher hypothesizes that self-monitoring one's own sleeping habits will increase the amount of time people sleep and reduce daytime fatigue. He has a group of people with sleeping problems record how many hours they sleep per night for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, he has participants fill out a survey that asks how tired the participants feel during the day. On average, people felt only mildly tired. He concludes that monitoring improves sleeping habits, which reduces daytime fatigue. This is an example of a( n):
What will be an ideal response?
one-group posttest-only design.
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A new school of thought may overcome its opposition not because the opposing points of view become convinced to accept the new thinking, but because adherents of the old school of thought die off.?
a. True b. False
Perception is the __________
a) process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion. b) action of physical stimuli on receptors leading to sensations. c) interpretation of memory based on selective attention. d) act of selective attention from sensory storage.
Marta's son Roberto is very upset and angry. He is overtired from their trip to the zoo, and he just fell down andscraped his knee on the sidewalk. Marta brings Roberto on her lap, and tries to comfort him by talking about all thefun they have had and how tiring the day was. What is she teaching Roberto?
A. She is teaching him that big boys should not cry. B. She is teaching him how to use language to gain control of intense feelings. C. She is teaching him that he has no control over his feelings. D. She is teaching him to feel afraid of her.
The analysis of a case study typically involves ______.
A. identifying discrepancies and determining how the multiple measures and sources converge B. a series of independent-samples t tests C. graphing data and determining patterns using visual inspection D. quantitative data analyses