A main limitation of the ethnographic research method is that it

a. is inapplicable to nonwhite or impoverished children.
b. is very subjective and prone to observer bias.
c. yields results that apply universally to all cultures.
d. focuses too much on explanation rather than description.


B

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a. deterioration of peer relations. b. weight gain. c. higher levels of moral reasoning. d. greater emotional difficulties.

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There is a 6-point difference between two sample means. If the two samples have the same variance, which of the following values would make the mean difference easiest to see in a graph showing the two distributions?

a. s2 = 2 c. s2 = 16 b. s2 = 8 d. s2 = 64

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Which of the following stages is in Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning?

A) Social contract orientation B) Good girl-good boy morality C) Universal principled reasoning D) Punishment orientation

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Walker et al's (1993) research with ethological coding among children

a. revealed that preschizophrenic children showed some of the same abnormal patterns of facial expression that occur after schizophrenic symptoms appear. b. led to the finding that schizophrenics seldom had ethological profiles that resembled those of people in a control group. c. showed that behaviors that were similar, like smiling versus grinning, were hard to differentiate reliably. d. led to extensive use of ethological approaches in clinical research.

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