A professor conducts a study using students as participants. Some of the students wanted to drop out of the study, but were afraid they would receive a poor grade in the class for doing so. No one was harmed, and all students needed to stay in the study in order to provide valid results. Which of the following was violated in this study?
A. informed consent
B. empirical research
C. content analysis
D. scientific method
Answer: A
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a. capitalist b. socialist c. democratic d. totalitarian e. all of the above
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A) Child maltreatment is found to be more common in households in which the woman is abused. B) Poverty has been found to be the single-best predictor of child abuse and neglect. C) Coping with a disability has been found to increase parental stress and child abuse. D) Substance-abusing has been found to lower parenting skills and increase child abuse and neglect.
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a. ethnocentric social learning b. inferiority–superiority complex c. passive–aggressive personality d. authoritarian personality
Ricardo studied married couples in order to see if length of marriage affected the nature and quality of communication patterns. Which unit of analysis did he use?
a. individual b. group c. organization d. social artifact e. communication patterns