The adequacy and effectiveness of organizing messages cannot be evaluated

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Researchers have criticized models that claim to have steps or stages in the process, because they rarely have strict adherence to those stages. 2. All mediations require a premediation stage to educate parties about mediation. 3. The phases of the Balanced Mediation Model must be done in the exact order with no deviations. 4. Most beginning mediators should use an evaluative approach. 5. A key point in the balanced approach is that writing agreement is the ultimate goal of mediation, thus becoming a measure of the mediation’s success.

A spurious correlation is:

A. a nonsignificant relationship. B. one in which a third variable influences the nature of the relationship between the two variables tested. C. the relationship between two unrelated variables. D. a positive linear relationship. E. a negative linear relationship.