Biased sampling is an example of
a. process loss.
b. process gain.
c. the risky shift.
d. deindividuation.
a
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a. Average features suggest good health and good genes b. Average features suggest youth. c. Seeing an average face makes the viewer feel good by comparison. d. A face with average features is easy to recognize in a crowd.
What is one general difference between descriptive and correlational research methods?
a. Descriptive research does not look at relationships between variables. b. Descriptive research is more useful when one wants to infer causation. c. Correlational research cannot make use of archival data. d. Correlational research allows the researcher to control the participants' actions.
A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older in the United States is
a. Medicaid. b. managed care. c. third-party payments. d. Medicare.
In an experiment, researchers exposed half the children to 2 hours of violence on television every day for a month and made sure the other half saw no violence on television at all. At the end of the month, they measured the aggressiveness in the children. The fact that the researchers arranged for some children to watch violence on television and for others to not do so is an example of:
A) matched pairs. B) matched samples. C) correlation. D) manipulation.