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casperchen82

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The use of the _____ approach for studying individual cases involves an intensive study of a single case, gathering much information about many different aspects of the case.
 
  a. selective c. nomothetic
  b. ideographic d. ideopathic

Question 2

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 20 subjects constitute _________.
 
  a. the dependent variable c. a statistic
  b. the sample d. the independent variable



Fayaz00962

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Answer to Question 1

B
This describes the ideographic approach to case studies.

Answer to Question 2

B



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