Select Questions

Chapter 10

1. A social worker wished to evaluate the benefits of letting nursing home residents care for a plant. On one floor, the residents were given a plant to care for in their room. On another floor, residents were not given a plant. The social worker measured their activity levels before and after. This is an example of a(n) __________.

randomized control groups design

interrupted time-series design

interrupted time-series with switching replications design

nonequivalent control group design

2. A school psychologist records the out-of-seat behavior of a group of hyperactive children for one week. The following week she administers verbal praise. She continues to alternate tokens and verbal praise for 3 additional weeks while continuously recording their out-of-seat behavior. This is a(n) __________.

randomized control groups design

nonequivalent control group design

interrupted time-series with multiple replications design

interrupted time-series with switching replications design

3. __________ measures have zero reactivity.

Unobtrusive

Functional

Molar

Molecular

4. An elaborate, sometimes pictorial, system for classifying the behavior of a species is called:

an ethogram.

event analysis.

a functional description.

an empirical description.

5. Which of the following is an example of probability sampling?

critical cases

convenience samples

simple random samples

snowball samples

6. In the interrupted time-series design __________.

the addition of several pretreatment and posttreatment observations allows the researcher to assess trends before and after treatment

comparisons of no treatment and treatment phases can be made

the order of treatments can be alternated or randomized

the posttest observations fail to control statistical regression

7. __________ data are data collected previously by people not directly associated with the current research.

Archival

Unbiased

Survey

Observational

8. A coding scheme classifies an animal's behavior into categories such as grooming, looking for food, and sexual display. This scheme is using a(n) __________ description.

empirical

molar

molecular

functional

9. Hartup recorded the type and frequency of aggressive behaviors seen in preschool children. He employed a(n) __________.

interrupted time-series design

naturalistic observation design

multiple baseline, N = 1 design

pretest-posttest design

10. When well done, __________ is NOT a major source of error in surveys.

method of survey administration

question alternatives

nonprobability sampling

question wording

11. A school psychologist compared the achievement scores of children who either had or had not been socially promoted. This study is using __________ data.

experimental

archival

observational

survey

12. The Notel researchers evaluated the rival hypothesis that observed increases in children's aggression after the introduction of television were due to maturation by:

comparing first and second graders.

comparing first graders before television with first graders after television.

giving a test of psychological maturity to the children.

comparing fourth and fifth graders.