Sharon wanted to determine if the juvenile boot camp program her county had initiated had a noticeable impact on recidivism. She compared similar juveniles who had taken part in the boot camp and those who received a more traditional sentence. Twelve months after their release, she compared their re-arrest rates. In this experiment, the boot camp was the:
a. the pretest.
b. the posttest.
c. the independent variable.
d. the dependent variable.
e. the control group.
C
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a. true b. false
The sociological imagination is linked to the study of gender by women
a) relating their private experiences to shared social conditions with other women. b) defining their self-worth by focusing on the needs of the men in their lives. c) ignoring the history of their families in order to advance a new feminist agenda. d) changing their identity to create a new biography of their lives.
A person reads in the paper that a Black youth has been shot by a White police officer. If no other information is available, attribution theory suggests that, in general,
A. a White person will view the shooting as an unnecessary act of violence. B. both Black and White people will assume that youth gang activity was a problem. C. a Black person will likely believe the shooting was unnecessary, while a White person will assume the officer acted appropriately. D. neither a Black nor a White person will make any assumptions about the situation until they have learned more information.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The normative life cycle model suggests that people search for diverse experiences and then decide upon an integrated identity, which will help them build intimacy skills with others. 2. Never-married people tend to be more willing to date than people who have lost spouses, and they tend to be more open to dating diverse partners. 3. Non-normative singles, people who are still single after the age of 25, face more discrimination and negative judgments than those who are single but are still within the normative age range for committed partnerships and marriage. 4. Another growing trend in the realm of singlehood is people who are living apart together (LAT).