In a longitudinal study of the influence of systems therapy on relationship satisfaction among married couples, five couples divorce and terminate their participation in the study. This example describes what threat to the study's internal validity?
a. Maturation
b. Selection bias
c. Experimental mortality
d. Statistical regression
Answer c,
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When you walk to the podium you should
A) ask the audience to bear with you. B) tell a joke. C) act confident. D) take several deep breaths.
Sterling tells Molly that her hair looks "bad," meaning it as a compliment, but Molly interprets this as a put-down. This is one of the disadvantages of
A. face-to-face communication. B. meanings being shared exactly the same by everyone. C. small group conflict. D. words being symbols, thus carrying different, arbitrary meanings for different people. E. trying to give out compliments.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false