Exam 5: Designing a Study

Dr.Munroe of the Quick Stop Counselling Clinic noticed that female clients with eating disorders who were counselled during the hours of 8:00 to 11:45 a.m.recovered much faster than those who were counselled from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.She jumped to the false conclusion that time of day of counselling caused a quicker recovery.Dr.Elgin was more cautious.He noticed that all the clinic staff used the same treatment,but the clinic's female counsellors all worked at the clinic in the morning,and male counsellors worked in the afternoon.He found that the faster recovery had nothing to do with the time of day; rather,it was due to female clients responding to the treatment with female counsellors.What is Dr.Munroe's initial causal relationship called?

What is the independent variable in the following statement? "The continuing absence of a father leads to low educational attainment among offspring in single-parent families.This view is derived from socialization theory,which stresses the importance of the male role model to the cognitive and emotional development of children."

Explain how a linear and nonlinear path to doing research differ,and how a preplanned vs.emergent research question differ.What types of researchers are most likely to use each?

Define the following terms -ecological fallacy

An error in explanation that relies on the fulfillment of an ultimate purpose is called

Define the following terms -teleology

Benjamin hypothesizes that people who grow up in violent households are more likely to be violent as adults.Benjamin wants to conduct quantitative research to determine whether his hypothesis is correct.What should Benjamin's null hypothesis be?

Define the following terms -Simpson's paradox

How does the intervening variable relate to the independent variable and dependent variable in a three-variable causal relationship?

How does a qualitative researcher assign significance or a coherent meaning to something?

Define the following terms -intervening variable

Define the following terms -level of analysis

Graduate student Lola Lively conducted a study of how children thought about society.She asked them about their attitudes toward the prime minister of Canada.Her unit(s)of analysis is(are)

Graduate student Phineas Manly studied the admissions practices and sports records of 200 colleges and universities in the U.S.and Canada to see whether postsecondary institutions with more lax admissions standards won more games.What are the units of analysis in this study?

Define the following terms -hypothesis