If you were interested in studying the impact that child abuse has on people later in life, you would probably be unable to use an experiment because this is an independent variable that could not be ethically manipulated
Instead, you might find a small number of people who had suffered abuse as children, and gather as much information as you could about them (with their consent, of course). This kind of research that involves gathering a lot of information about one or a few participants is called a __________ study.
a. case
b. retrospective
c. protagonistic
d. survey
Answer: A
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Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the
A. misinformation effect. B. familiarity effect. C. constructive nature of memory. D. reminiscence bump.
What do academic approaches to early childhood education focus on?
a. A child's natural physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development b. Instruction in skills needed to excel in school c. Encouraging children to begin school at equal levels of knowledge d. Giving children a boost prior to kindergarten
A clinical psychologist who said that maladaptive behaviors are shared between members of a relationship and not just the responsibility of an individual would be in harmony with therapists who take the ________ approach
a. humanistic b. classical psychoanalytic c. cognitive-behavioral d. family therapy
If a certain test had a reliability value of .95, then we know that
a. its validity must also be high b. its validity must be low c. the test is measuring something very consistently, even though we don't necessarily know what it is that's being measured d. none of these, since a test could never have a reliability of .95