A psychologist conducts a research study and finds that abused children have more difficulty in school than non-abused children.
a. Is this a descriptive, correlational, or experimental study? Justify your choice.
b. Based on the study, the psychologist draws the conclusion that an abusive home life leads to poorer school performance in school. Is this conclusion justified? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
Dr. Carey gives a variety of achievement and aptitude tests to 1000 ten-year-old children from Southside Elementary School and 1000 ten-year-old children from Northside Elementary School.
He finds that, on average, the Southside students perform better on the tests than the Northside students. He concludes that the teachers at Southside are superior to those at Northside. Is this conclusion warranted? Why or why not?
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