research Methodology quiz6 – Flashcards

Which of the following are important, but not necessary, to establishing a causal relationship?

The strongest nonexperimental design for establishing the time order of effects is the:

In which nonexperimental design is data collected at one point in time?

Which research design would be preferred to study all individuals who graduated a boot camp program in 2001?

A researcher studies the impact of living in a community that has experienced a recent rise in violent crime. Data are collected from a sample of adolescents in the affected community shortly after the rise in violent crime. Ten years later, a new sample is drawn from those who were adolescents shortly after the rise in violent crime. This would be termed a(n):

Subject attrition is a concern for which type of study?

Which research design would you use to answer the question: Are prisons more likely to have drug treatment programs available now than in the 1950s?

Which of the following is required for a true experiment?

In a repeated cross-sectional design, when the population is not changing, data are collected at two or more points in time from:

Attempting to study the relationship between low intelligence and crime a research administers an IQ test to 1000 prison inmates and draws a random sample from the inmates with IQ scores less than 70. The researcher includes the IQ as part of his posttest and discovers a small group of inmates with IQ scores over 70. Which of the following sources of causal (internal) validity has occurred in this scenario?