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chandani

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The textbook reports in some detail a quasi-experiment or field study of nursing home residents in Connecticut. The independent or manipulated variable in this experiment was
 
  a. their scores on a pessimism scale.
  b. eating, sleeping, and mood scores.
  c. the floor on which they lived.
  d. the level of responsibility they were given.

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It is clearly unethical to experimentally put people into traumatic situations. Even temporarily telling a group of subjects that their families had been killed, even though they had not, would be highly unethical and would never be approved by a research committee. However, social scientists can study groups of people who have had traumatic events happen even though the researchers now have less control over the situation. This type of research is described as
 
  a. correlational.
  b. experimental.
  c. quasi-experimental.
  d. observational.



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soda0602

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d: the level of responsibility they were given.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c: quasi-experimental.




chandani

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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