Describe the limitations of longitudinal studies
What will be an ideal response?
Practical concerns include obtaining and maintaining research funding and resources over many years and the long wait for meaningful data. Design difficulties relate to aging effects and cohort effects. Aging effects are general changes that occur because as participants age there are increases in physical prowess, impulse control, or social opportunity. Cohort effects are influences related to being a member of a specific cohort—a group of individuals who are followed during the same time and experience the same cultural or historical events.
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A. heroin B. pharmaceutical drugs C. marijuana D. None of the above
Children between the ages of 2 and 4 do not yet recognize that words are arbitrary symbols for objects and events
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What theory best explains why Doug, who lent his lawn mower to his neighbor, becomes so mad when his kindness is not reciprocated?
Doug's neighbor Jake approaches him and asks if he can borrow his lawn mower. Though he didn't know him all that well, Doug decides to lend the mower to Jake. Later on, Doug finds himself lending equipment to his neighbors Janet and Lee, too. The next day, Dough needed to borrow some other lawn equipment, but his neighbors say, without explanation, that they are unable to lend him the equipment, causing him to become a bit perturbed. However, Doug starts to feel much better at the community association meeting, where his neighbors publicly honor him for his continual help in the neighborhood. The next order of business is choosing a new community association president. A) social exchange theory B) status construction theory C) symbolic interaction D) social structure and personality
Which of the following is a criticism of the theoretical approach?
A. It is a theoretically based approach. B. It depends on the lexical hypothesis. C. It can only be as good as a theory. D. It has restricted its identification of important traits to adjectives.