A clinical health psychologist has recruited 50 adults to participate in a weight loss program. The participants are divided into five groups of 10 participants with each group being led by a different graduate student. In multilevel modeling, the

participants in each group would be

A) a lower-level variable.
B) an upper-level variable.
C) a dependent variable.
D) a confounding variable.


Answer: A

Sociology

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a. produces a perfect age-sex pyramid. b. keeps the sex ratio steady at 100. c. maintains population at a steady level. d. will take the population steadily downward to zero.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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