1. Comparisons of quasi-experiments to true experiments reveal that __________.
2. The __________ design is to quasi-experimental designs as the multiple baseline design is to single-case designs.
3. People who commit suicide sometimes leave notes. A researcher analyzed the contents of suicide notes in order to explain why people commit suicide. This study has the flaw of __________.
4. An elaborate, sometimes pictorial, system for classifying the behavior of a species is called:
5. Whenever a researcher schedules a treatment following high or low scores on the dependent measure or selects subjects based upon extreme scores he should be concerned with the threat to internal validity of __________.
6. Footprints, fingerprints, patterns of blood spatter, DNA from blood samples, and fiber traces used by forensic experts to reconstruct a crime are:
7. Which of the following is an example of probability sampling?
8. The problem with telephone interviews is that __________.
9. 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) __________.
10. In the interrupted time-series design __________.
11. Flint, one of Goodall's chimpanzee subjects, was observed throwing a rock at one of his human observers. Flint's behavior is an example of:
12. 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:
