Question :
111. Which of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s environmental systems consists of the : 1254551
111. Which of Urie Bronfenbrenner’s environmental systems consists of the patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as sociohistorical circumstances?
a. Mesosystem
b. Chronosystem
c. Macrosystem
d. Exosystem
112. Flevy is conducting an extensive market study and has hired a big group of college students to hand out a standard set of questions to shoppers at malls and supermarkets and to seek their responses. Which of the following methods of data collection is Flevy using?
a. Laboratory research
b. Survey
c. Naturalistic observation
d. Physiological measures
113. Cynthia is conducting a survey on the prevalence and patterns of substance abuse in her city. What could be a problem that Cynthia could encounter while using this method of data collection?
a. The assumption that a person’s behavior is consistent and stable
b. The inability to sample a large number of people
c. That surveys have to be conducted only in person
d. Some participants may not tell the truth and instead give socially acceptable answers
114. Which of the following is a criticism of standardized tests?
a. They allow a person’s performance to be compared with that of other individuals.
b. They assume a person’s behavior is consistent and stable.
c. They provide information about individual differences among people.
d. They are difficult to design.
115. In _____ research, the goal is to describe the strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics.
a. descriptive
b. correlational
c. collaborative
d. discrete
116. Dr. Jackson’s research has found that the correlation between IQ and head circumference is +.10. From this information, we can conclude that:
a. people with large heads have a higher IQ than people with smaller heads.
b. there is a weak relationship between head size and IQ.
c. people with small heads tend to have a higher IQ than people with large heads.
d. head circumference is an important predictor of IQ.
117. Which of the following correlations is the strongest?
a. –.65
b. +.46
c. + .70
d. –.77
118. A(n) _____ is a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
a. case study
b. survey
c. experiment
d. correlational
119. A researcher is interested in the effect of exercise on stamina in elderly patients. The patients are randomly assigned to be in a high-exercise or low-exercise training program for eight weeks. At the end of the program, their stamina is measured by seeing how long they can walk comfortably on a treadmill. In this study, the dependent variable is:
a. the number of minutes on the treadmill.
b. the exercise program (high versus low).
c. the number of elderly patients.
d. the eight-week duration of the exercise program.
120. In an experimental study, the _____ group serves as a baseline against which the effects of the manipulated condition can be compared.
a. control
b. experimental
c. dependent
d. independent
