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When the _____ approach is used, several individuals are studied on only a few variables.
 
  a. nomothetic c. multithetic
  b. normative d. ideographic

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Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The 150 epileptics constitute _________.
 
  a. the dependent variable c. a statistic
  b. a parameter d. the independent variable


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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This describes the nomothetic approach.

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