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Chapter 10

1. Goodall reported the following description of chimpanzee behavior: "Beethoven presents, pant-grunts to Satan; Satan, hair out, stamps on Beethoven, who screams and falls 3 meters to the ground." This description is:
        
2. Which of the following is NOT a serious threat to validity of the pretest-posttest one-group design, O X O, is ___________.
        
3. A school psychologist compared the achievement scores of children who either had or had not been socially promoted. This study is using __________ data.
        
4. Although field studies avoid some limitations of laboratory research, such studies have the disadvantage(s) of :
        
5. __________ data are data collected previously by people not directly associated with the current research.
        
6. Recording units of behavior such as licking, walking or crying is an example of using a(n) __________ description.
        
7. A graduate student was observing the depressive behavior of a patient on the unit. She was kept unaware of when the patient started treatment. Such a control to reduce observer bias is called __________.
        
8. The use of typical cases is an example of __________ while the use of clusters is an example of __________.
        
9. The use of a nonequivalent control group is an attempt to control for __________.
        
10. The accuracy of estimating population values from a sample is a function of all of the following EXCEPT:
        
11. A researcher conducts a week of daily observations of depressive behavior in a group of bipolar patients. She then implements drug treatment for one week, continuing her observations. In the third week she removes the drug treatment, and in the fourth week she administers the drug again. This researcher is using a __________ design.
        
12. Withholding potentially biasing information from an observer is called _________the observer.