Does viewing aggressive media cause aggression? Why is it difficult to answer this question definitively?
What will be an ideal response?
It is difficult to assess causal relationships between variables such as violent television viewing and aggressive behavior since most research is correlational, not experimental. It is difficult to know whether it is more likely that children who watch violent television or play violent video games are just more aggressive to begin with and are attracted to such media. On the other hand, experiments that have shown violent television or a model acting aggressively towards an object have shown increased aggressive behavior in randomly assigned children.
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a. ?refuted by contemporary research b. ?the first experimental test of the variability hypothesis of male superiority c. ?supported by contemporary research d. ?attributed to genetic differences e. ?challenged by the "men's issues" movement
At a lunch meeting with a client, the CEO of Gossip Polls, Inc., was asked to determine America's favorite day of the week. Hundreds of Gossip employees across the U.S. started collecting data immediately, calling people at their residences. One hour later, the attitudes from 10,000 Americans, across all 50 states, were collected. A staff member called the CEO, still at her lunch meeting, to tell her the results of the poll: America's favorite day of the week is Monday. Given your text's discussion of inductive reasoning in science, we might suspect that the observations in this poll are not representative because
A. the participants were only asked one question for this poll. B. the participants were not sufficiently geographically diverse. C. the people who are home to answer the phone in the early afternoon are not an appropriate cross-section of the U.S. population. D. everyone in America was not asked their opinion.
Grandma Salicetti came to the United States from Italy when she was 18 . She learned English, but not very fluently. She recently had a stroke, and although she can still speak, she is having some difficulty. Which of the following is the most likely outcome? a. She will still be able to speak English fluently, but not Italian
b. She will still be able to speak Italian fluently, but not English. c. She will have trouble speaking both languages equally fluently. d. She will still be able to speak both languages fluently, but not understand either.
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b. is impossible, given the inability of patients to use the technology. c. might be used in the future, but is not currently available. d. allows the patient to receive more hours of rehabilitation than more traditional methods requiring the presence of a therapist.