Advantages of these research methods include the following: generalizability based on large samples and standardized measurement, and statistical analysis of variables that cannot be manipulated
a. quantitative description
b. randomized field experiments
c. nonequivalent comparison group designs
d. experimental social innovation
a
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From his prison study, Zimbardo concluded that people who have power over other people tend to abuse that power. What criticism has been raised against that conclusion? a. Participants were not randomly assigned to roles as prisoners and guards
b. Several of the participants in this study were known to have mental health problems. c. The guards had been encouraged to treat the prisoners badly. d. The study did not last long enough to test the hypothesis.
The term _____ concerns an individual's sense of the age at which he or she should experience certain events
a. age norms b. age stratification c. social clock d. age grade
One of the first psychologists in the United States, Edward Titchener assumed that all human mental experience could be understood as the combination of basic components. His approach came to be known as __________
FIll in the blank with correct word.
_______________ is what makes a note played on a flute, which produces relatively pure tones, sound different from the same note played on an oboe, which produces very complex sounds
a. Frequency b. Pitch c. Loudness d. Timbre