Compare and contrast cross-sectional designs and longitudinal designs.
What will be an ideal response?
Cross-sectional designs assess or compare a participant or group of participants at one particular point in time. By contrast, longitudinal designs emphasize changes across time, often making within-group comparisons from one point in time to another.
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Which of the following students best summarizes the experiences of women in blue-collar jobs?
a. Rosie: "Surprisingly, in the current era, women are welcome in blue-collar jobs, as long as they can do the work.". b. Selma: "Women blue-collar workers may experience both access discrimination and sexual harassment, yet they are often proud of their abilities.". c. Wilma: "Women now constitute about 25% of employees in blue-collar jobs like firefighter and carpenter.". d. Delores: "There really aren't any benefits for women in blue-collar jobs, but they take whatever work they can get.".
How would the network theory of memory explain the time that you thought of baseball, and in a few seconds you ended up thinking about toothpaste?
A. You were following personal associations, or mental roads, traveling from node to node. B. There were objects in your present environment related to both baseball and toothpaste. C. You were randomly sorting through many, many memories. D. Unfortunately, examples like this are not easily explained by the network theory of memory.
Any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds is a __________
a) consequence. b) stimulus. c) discriminated variable. d) conditioned variable.
During the "BACK to Sleep" campaign, stomach sleeping went from 70% to 20%. What happened to the rate of SIDS deaths?
A. It declined by approximately 90%. B. It declined by approximately 50%. C. Unfortunately, it made no difference. D. Unfortunately, it increased by 20%.