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A survey question for probationers is as follows: In what county were you born? (circle one)             -Hartford                  -Fairfield             -New Haven             -Litchfield                  -Middlessex              -New London             -Tolland                     -Windham    If the variable being measured by this item is County of Birth, then each county is a(n) _____ of the variable.

If researchers are conducting a study that involves naturalistic observation, simply observing participants in a public setting, they do not need to obtain informed consent

What is the INDEPENDENT variable(s) in the following hypothesis? “Persons who experience economic deprivation during early childhood will place a higher priority on economic self-interest later in life than will people who did not experience economic deprivation during early childhood.”

A researcher is studying the lifestyle of people who are on probation.  She gives them a questionnaire about their daily habits (both healthy and unhealthy) while they sit in the waiting room of probation department offices.  When a participant returns his completed survey to her, she notices that he has indicated that he has been spending his days smoking marijuana and seeking out ways to obtain prescription painkillers.  This is an obvious violation of the conditions of his probation and the law.  The researcher___

Three common subsections of the Method section in a research article are

What is the DEPENDENT variable(s) in the following hypothesis? “Persons who experience economic deprivation during early childhood will place a higher priority on economic self-interest later in life than will people who did not experience economic deprivation during early childhood.”

Which is NOT one of the four important criteria to evaluate a theory developed by Ronald Akers?

The ability to test the validity of a theory is not important

Individual matching and aggregate matching are matching techniques that can be used in the _____.

The main issue with quasi-experimental designs is that they are missing random assignment of participants to groups