1. The pretreatment observations in the interrupted time-series design are like the in a single-case experiment.
2. 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.
3. As compared to indirect measures of behavior, direct observations have __________.
4. Comparisons of quasi-experiments to true experiments reveal that __________.
5. Rosemary Wood, the secretary for President Nixon, erased portions of the tapes where the President and his staff discussed the Watergate break-in. Later scholars have examined these tapes to assess the degree of integrity of the Nixon Presidency. This example represents the problem of __________ in archival data.
6. 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:
7. The use of typical cases is an example of __________ while the use of clusters is an example of __________.
8. Which of the following methods of collecting data in a survey usually yields the lowest response rate(s)?
9. In the interrupted time-series design __________.
10. Samuel Stouffer discovered that the greatest source of error or bias in the scientific use of surveys is:1 Based on his study of how Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and how Darwin developed the theory of evolution, Robert Weisberg concluded that:
11. Recording units of behavior such as licking, walking or crying is an example of using a(n) __________ description.
12. The threat to internal validity resulting from normal fluctuations in measures is called:
