To ensure that all your participants have an equal opportunity to be in either experimental group (one receives a drug, the other group receives a placebo), you decide to toss a coin to determine who gets placed in which group. You have engaged in _______

a. selective participation
b. random sampling
c. random assignment
d. random participation
e. matching


C

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In the case of John and Luanne Buzzanca, who engaged a woman to serve as a surrogate mother using donated eggs and sperm, and who then divorced before the child was born, the court ruled that

a. both parental parties who engage a surrogate mother are responsible for the child. b. in surrogate mother situations, only the donor of the ovum is responsible for the child. c. in surrogate mother situations, only the donor of the sperm is responsible for the child. d. surrogate mothers are partially responsible for the care and support of the child.

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Which of these is TRUE Biosphere 2?

A. It was a three acre, glass enclosed ecosystem designed to test the effect of pollutants. B. It showed that humans were capable of creating human-made substitutions for essential natural resources. C. Its $200 million dollar budget was not sufficient to carry out its mission. D. It was designed in the 1960s and continued to be usable through 2010.

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The term __________ refers to the invisible barriers that limits a woman's advancement in an organization

A. discrimination B. invisible barrier C. glass ceiling D. male ceiling

Sociology

In what way did the Red Power movement lead to more assimilation?

A. The federal government was successfully forced to honor all treaty obligations. B. Native Americans from different tribes had to find common bonds in order to work together. C. Loyalty to tribal traditions was strengthened. D. Younger Native Americans were alienated from the more assimilated older generation. E. Militant Native American women joined forces with the women's liberation movement.

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