State auditors are concerned about the extraneous influences that may have impacted the outcomes in
a quasi-experimental design.
In particular, they are concerned that the research participants, who
were children, may have changed or developed during the two years that data were collected. What is
name of the factor that accounts for outcomes being influenced by developmental changes among the
research participants?
a) Learning
b) Maturation
c) History
d) Growth
b
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scholarships; they will be able to award about 50% of the students a scholarship. They divide the students into two groups with 50% in group 1 and 50% in group 2 . What is the name of the statistic that is the middle score in this group of scores? A. Mean B. Standard Deviation C. Median D. Mode
In terms of gender and multicultural differences among interviewers:
A) Women tend to talk more than men during interviews. B) African Americans tend to focus more on contextual-environmental issues. C) Euro-North Americans tend to emphasize individual issues. D) Men and women tend to use roughly the same amount of questions; any differences are more culture than gender related. E) Men tend to use more questions, and women more reflective listening skills.
IQ scores that are considered profound are:
A. 50-55 to approximately 70 B. 35-40 to 50-55 C. 20-25 to 35-40 D. below 20 or 25
In structural family therapy, the technique applied to change the hierarchical relationship of family members within subsystems is referred to as:
A) Unbalancing B) Shifting boundaries C) Challenging assumptions D) Joining and altering