Chapter 3

____ research relies on words rather than numbers for data?

Qualitative

Experimenters use unobtrusive measures to?

assess behavior without subjects knowledge

which non experimental method is often low in the degree of manipulation of antecedent conditions and low in imposition on units?

case studies

A developmental psychologist makes careful daily notes about her own child's growing use of language during their first year of life. She is using ____ method?

case study

A deviant case analysis is an extension of ___ evaluate method?

case study

Which is an important advantage of phenomenological approach?

developmental of valuable hypothesis

Mednick used ___ to discover that schizophrenic and normal children differ in the activity of their autonomic nervous system.

deviant case analysis

Which of these is a qualitative method that might rely on a researcher's own experience or on those of others?

empirical phenomenology

When we can generalize our research findings to subjects or settings outside of an experiment our experiment as __ validity

external

Frazz observes the number of donuts the faculty consume in the lunchroom while he mops the floor. Which approach did he use?

field study

When we are certain that only the antecedent conditions we created caused participants behavior in our experiment , the experiment has ___ validity?

internal

A social psychologist who observes aggressive behavior between siblings through a one-way mirror is using

naturalistic observation

Wheeler's (1998) account of the importance of Feng shui consultants, when building the new headquarters go the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, demonstrates the versatility of the ___ method?

naturalistic observation method

The qualitative study by Buchbinder and Eisikovits (2002) of female victims of domestic violence in Israel analyzed ____ of 20 women who had been victims of spousal abuse

oral reports

Which is a set of attitudes, beliefs. methods, and procedures that are generally accepted within a particular discipline at a specific point in time

paradigm

Researchers face special challenges to their ethics and objectivity when they us the ____ method to study groups like homeless and urban crack addicts?

participant-observer

Which of these examines a single individual's immediate subject experiences?

phenomenological approach

Which is standard feature of participant-observer studies?

qualitative data

Researchers use unobtrusive measures to control

reactivity

Yepez (1994) employed the INTERSECT coding system in a study of whether in "English as a Second Language" courses gave equal attention to their male and female students. Her use of INTERSECT illustrates ____ technique?

systematic observation