Which of the following would best describe a snowball sampling procedure?
a. a psychologist studying single mothers uses those single mothers who are
among her clients.
b. a study of college students uses every 50th person on an alphabetical list of all
college students at a university.
c. a researcher asks substance abusers he knows to suggest the names of other
substance abusers who might be willing to participate in the research.
d. a sample of college students is selected from a list of all college students
provided by the university.
C
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Which of the following terms describes the process of a system restructuring its homeostasis in response to positive feedback?
A) Cybernetics B) Feedback loop C) Second-order change D) Systemic response
Disengaged subsystems are surrounded by _________ boundaries while _________ subsystems have _________ boundaries
a. rigid, enmeshed, diffuse b. executive, rigid, enmeshed c. rigid, executive, diffuse d. rigid, diffuse, enmeshed
One method that government is using to move beyond bureaucratic struggles and stagnation is performance based contracting
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The probability that we are willing to risk being wrong in rejecting the null hypothesis is:
a. Located in the smaller portion of the theoretical sampling distribution after the cutoff point. b. Called the level of significance. c. Called the alpha level. d. All of these.