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Chapter 10

1. In nonprobability sampling, the likelihood of selecting a particular subject is __________, while in probability sampling, the likelihood of selecting a particular subject is __________.
        
2. Although field studies avoid some limitations of laboratory research, such studies have the disadvantage(s) of :
        
3. The student teacher waited a week after being introduced to her subjects before conducting her observation in order to __________.
        
4. The threat to internal validity resulting from normal fluctuations in measures is called:
        
5. A researcher is interested in studying drug use in adolescence. He gathers a list of all high schools in the nation. He randomly selects 500 schools. From these schools, he randomly selects 3000 homerooms. From each homeroom, he selects 20 students using simple random sampling. His sampling process is an example of __________.
        
6. A strategy for establishing is to have an observer rate the same behavior sequence at different times throughout the study.
        
7. Which of the following methods of collecting data in a survey usually yields the lowest response rate(s)?
        
8. 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:
        
9. Hartup recorded the type and frequency of aggressive behaviors seen in preschool children. He employed a(n) __________.
        
10. The accuracy of estimating population values from a sample is a function of all of the following EXCEPT:
        
11. 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 __________.
        
12. The __________ design is to quasi-experimental designs as the AB design is to single-case designs.