The most influential school of liberal democratic thought in contemporary America is the __________________ school, which maintains that the balance between individual freedom and the common good is best achieved by the mix of representative government, skillful leaders, and political parties.

As a member of a developmental research team you are given the responsibility of obtaining

parental consent for a group of kindergarten children to participate in a research study. You want to make the process of getting parental consent as easy as possible so you prepare the informed consent and then have the kindergarten give each child the consent form with instructions to give it to their parents for them to read and sign and return it only if they do not want their child to participate in the study. This approach would involve a. active consent b. minor participatory consent c. assent consent d. passive consent

A random sample is one in which

a. each person in the population to be studied has an equal chance of being selected in the sample being studied. b. every person in the population to be studied is also included in the sample selected for study. c. patterns but not groups are present. d. sample members are asked closed questions.