Which of the following research situations would be most likely to use an independent-measures design?
a. Examine the development of vocabulary as a group of children mature from age 2 to age 3.
b. Examine the long-term effectiveness of a stop-smoking treatment by interviewing subjects 2 months and 6 months after the treatment ends.
c. Compare the mathematics skills for 9th-grade boys versus 9th-grade girls.
d. Compare the blood-pressure readings before medication and after medication for a group a patients with high blood pressure.
C
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Freud called the id's need to satisfy its animalistic urges the:
a. the pleasure principle b. the idealistic principle c. the reality principle d. the sublimation principle
______ children tend to perform better on nonverbal than on verbal tasks.
A. White B. African American C. Latino D. Asian
Compared to European adolescents, American adolescents:
A) are more likely to have institutional support for their job searches. B) are more likely to return to school after working. C) pursue a course of study that is more career focused. D) all of the above
Your good friend tells you that she is going to breast-feed for as long as she can, no matter how hard it is when she returns to work because "she knows that breast-fed babies are smarter
" She says that she would feel guilty if she stopped before her baby turned one because she would be "disadvantaging her child." How could you explain the research in such a way that she would feel better about her decision if she chose to stop breast-feeding after a couple of months? What will be an ideal response?