Which research method is most suitable for studying factors that influence behavioural change over time?
a. Cohort
b. Longitudinal
c. Correlational
d. Cross-sectional
Answer: b. Longitudinal
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According to research on gender-typed activities,
a. in reality, parents buy boys and girls the same kinds of toys. b. parents tend to assign outdoor tasks to boys and domestic tasks to girls. c. parents are particularly likely to discourage gender-inappropriate behavior in their daughters, rather than their sons. d. aside from stereotyped toy preferences, parents pay little attention to their children's gender-typed activities.
Research on early infant ability to imitate (e.g., Meltzoff, 2004) has tended to assess the action of
a. eye blinking. b. rolling over. c. sticking out the tongue. d. smiling.
One way to randomly assign students to experimental and control groups for a study of academic behaviors is to
a. flip a coin for each student to determine which group she or he will be assigned. b. divide the group sitting in the front half of the room from the group sitting in the back. c. ask volunteers for the experimental group to raise their hands. d. do none of these.
____________________ espoused the use of introspection, which is the careful reporting of one's own experiences
a. E.B. Titchener b. Hermann Ebbinghaus c. Gustav Fechner d. Wilhelm Wundt