Distinguish the major research methods used in the field of human development, and provide examples of each. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
What will be an ideal response?
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Bartlett argued that Ebbinghaus’s belief that he had created meaningless stimuli, his nonsense syllables, and thereby removed the problem of meaning, was false because, even with those nonsense syllables, people __________.
a. “construct” their own reality b. are uninfluenced by meaning as respondents c. are mechanical in their responses d. none of the above
In a study (Miller and Bersoff, 1992) comparing people in Mysore, India and Los Angeles in their handling of conflict situations, adults in India _____________ to choose the interpersonal alternative compared to the adults in the United States
a. were much less likely b. were slightly less likely c. were equally likely d. were much more likely
In Sperling's research, if the tone was delayed for more than one second, the participants'
recall of the letters a. slightly improved. b. was hampered. c. at first improved and then declined. d. at first declined and then improved. e. drastically improved.
If we decide to reject the idea that a sample represents a particular population, because the sample mean lies within the region of rejection,
a. although the probability is low, our decision may be wrong. b. the probability is high that our decision is wrong. c. we cannot know the probability of our decision being wrong. d. the probability of our decision being correct is 0.05.