The overall themes of Chapter 4 include:
a. a longitudinal perspective often strengthens community research
b. the best method for a specific study depends on its purposes
c. qualitative methods are better for community research
d. both ‘a' and ‘b'
d
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Megan believes she has found a medication that will greatly reduce the symptoms of depression, so she decides to conduct an experiment to test her ____. She randomly assigns depressed people to one of two groups. One group of participants takes the medication, while the other group gets only sugar pills. The latter group is receiving a ____.?
a. ?hypothesis; placebo b. ?theory; random variable c. ?bias; treatment d. ?intervening variable; placebo
We learned that nonparametric tests are less able to detect relationships between variables that ______.
A. exist between groups B. exist within groups C. exist in the population D. exist between subjects
Jack grew up in a poor neighborhood that offered few opportunities for a young child. He has recently been diagnosed as mildly mentally retarded. Which model of abnormality may be the most appropriate to use in understanding this case?
a) cognitive b) behavioral c) sociocultural d) psychodynamic
Which statement below is true?
A) Under certain conditions it is appropriate to run participants in groups in order to save time. B) It is never appropriate to run participants in groups because behavior of any participant can be influenced by the behavior of others in the group. C) One should seldom run participants individually because it minimizes the role of social interaction that is a major part of nearly all behavior. D) Participants should continue to be added to each level of your experiment until the results become statistically significant.