Using the scenario in question 1, explain how you would revise this experiment to solve weaknesses by using one of the three true experiment designs.
What will be an ideal response?
May vary. One possible answer is to create a pre-test post-test control group study
where there are two randomly assigned groups. One group takes the pretest, receives
the pamphlet, and then takes the posttest. The other group is different in that they do
not receive the pamphlet. The time between the test will only be one hour and subjects will be limited to where they can go and what they can do.
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The awareness that helps us understand that there is a connection between losing our job and the high unemployment rate in the region in which we live is an example of: a. common sense. b. a myth
c. false consciousness. d. the sociological imagination.
It is not always clear when the provider–dependent aspect of the parent–child relationship ends. Should it end at age 18 or 21? When a person is no longer in school? This is an example of __________
a. role expectation b. role performance c. role alienation d. role ambiguity
To Durkheim, Hindus dipping in the Ganges River, Confucians offering food to their ancestors, and Buddhists bowing before a shrine, were all examples of
a. a shrine. b. religion. c. the profane. d. a church.
Congress passed the __________ of 1882 in order to suspend the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).