Explain the difference between experimental and statistical control. Use examples.
What will be an ideal response?
May vary. For experimental control, this is when we can create something fictitious
and ensure it does not contain any confounds to begin with. For statistical control, this is when a stimulus cannot be altered so the variable must be accounted for using
statistics. Examples will vary greatly.
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A) The promise of a better life B) Low unemployment C) Tyrannical governments D) Familial ties
If a field researcher wanted to learn a political organization's pattern of recruitment over time, the researcher might begin by interviewing a fairly recent recruit and ask who introduced that person to the organization. Then the researcher might interview the person named and ask who introduced that person to the political organization. This would be an example of: a. snowball sampling
b. systematic sampling. c. deviant cases sampling. d. accidental sampling. e. quota sampling.
_____ movements seek to alter a specific part of society, typically focusing on a single issue
a. Resistance b. Reform c. Revolutionary d. Social
During the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers, and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee were all working toward the goal of ending racial discrimination. But ______ prevented them from working together toward that goal.
A. their collective fears of being targeted by the CIA B. their respective ideological differences and rigid bureaucratization C. their rising expectations D. their lack of bureaucratization and access to resources