A researcher wants to know how military veterans in his city respond to a mobile phone app that alerts them to veteran-specific discounts when entering retail stores. The researcher wants to find a listing of all veterans within the city limits, call all of them to ask to participate in the study and then randomly assign those who agree to different treatment groups. The researcher is attempting ______.
a. post-test only design
b. two-step randomization
c. high external validity
d. Solomon four-group design
b. two-step randomization
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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a. a popular restaurant b. a busy bus line c. the office of a paper company d. a public park
Which one of the following is a description of a new social movement?
A. an environmental social movement that focuses on the interconnection of all the world's people and resources B. a local workers' protest against poor wages and working conditions C. a civil rights protest movement in a major American city D. All these answers are correct.
Which of the following is one of the findings in Asch’s conformity experiment?
A. Many people discount their own perceptions rather than contradict group consensus. B. Across the trials, 35% of subjects chose the correct answer. C. The subject was more likely to assert that the lines were unequal when they were unequal. D. Across the trials, 100% of subjects dissented at least once.