A researcher asks a sample of people about their attitudes toward same-sex marriage and concludes people are either strongly in favor of it or strongly opposed, with relatively few people either unsure or indifferent. She reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is ______.

a. normal
b. peaked
c. skewed
d. bimodal


d. bimodal

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

IDEA 2004 dictates that a multitude of formal and informal tools are required during the assessment process.

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Ms. Brunswick has a problem with one of her students. Little Melissa continually picks her nose in class. Ms. Brunswick implements a program to decrease nose picking. However, she simultaneously incorporates an intervention to increase Melissa's use of a kleenex. This intervention package is an example of:

a. stimulus control b. the fair pair c. contingency management d. positive teaching

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Cultural beliefs, values, customs, traditions, taboos, norms or ways of doing things, mores, and spiritual beliefs are ______.

a. superficial levels of culture b. essential elements of culture c. models of cultural experiences d. behavioral culture

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A typical sample size for a ______ study is about ______ individuals.

A. ethnographic; 100–200 B. grounded theory; 100–200 C. case; 5–25 D. phenomenological; 5–25

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