Latona did an experiment at a military barracks over the space of a few months to examine the effect of group size on group morale. He randomly assigned soldiers to the experimental and control groups and did a pretest and posttest. Midway through the experiment, some of the soldiers were re-assigned to different stations across the U.S. causing the sample size to drop. Which source of internal

invalidity does this example reflect?

a. history
b. maturation
c. instrumentation
d. selection biases
e. mortality


E

Sociology

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The more degrees of freedom, the closer a t distribution is to the __________

Fill in the blanks with correct word

Sociology

According to global sex surveys, __________ is identified as the sexiest country in the world

(a) Greece (b) the United States (c) France (d) Japan

Sociology

Hidden populations are:

Ones that seek to avoid participating in research Ones that are less visible to researchers Ones that should only be included in maximum heterogeneity samples Ones that tend to dominate convenience samples

Sociology

Summarize trends in religion in the United States in relation to social inequality and race/class in central city/suburban churches

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology