Why is internal validity more important than external validity in true experiments?
What will be an ideal response?
May vary. Internal validity is very specific to true experiments. Experiments put
their faith in internal validity unlike any other method. External validity is more crucial in surveys and content analysis. There is an understand that experiments are only to make causal inferences, not large-scale generalizations to the population. Students may also answer this question by discussing the seven classes of extraneous variables that jeopardize internal validity.
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A. a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the larger group. B. a large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside it, and participate in a common culture. C. the totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior. D. a specialized language that is used by members of a group.
The significance attached to iPods is an element of nonmaterial culture
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
When Leo claims that "medicating three-year-olds is just a harbinger of things to come" what does he mean by this?
a. in the future, we will produce more medications that can have the same kind of revolutionary and positive effects that Ritalin has had on youngsters in the early part of the 21st century. b. in the past, we have not had drugs such as this available, but children and parents were self-medicating with other drugs that had similar effects. c. since we have already embraced the idea of chemically altering the minds of very young children, in the future we will think nothing of experimenting on youngsters in ways that we can not even imagine today. d. the use of Ritalin on young children is so ethically questionable that we will probably see this practice disappear in the not too distant future.
One research study revealed that teachers' expectations have an impact on students' athletic achievements. This situation would be of particular interest to which of the following sociological perspectives on education?
A. the global perspective B. the conflict perspective C. the interactionist perspective D. the functionalist perspective