If you were interested in studying the impact that child abuse has on people later in life, you would probably be unable to use an experiment because this is an independent variable that could not be ethically manipulated
Instead, you might find a small number of people who had suffered abuse as children, and gather as much information as you could about them (with their consent, of course). This kind of research that involves gathering a lot of information about one or a few participants is called a __________ study.
a. case
b. retrospective
c. protagonistic
d. survey
Answer: A
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The Talmudic quote, "We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are," relates to which psychological approach?
A. Psychoanalysis. B. Humanistic psychology. C. The trait approach. D. Phenomenology.
A trimmed sample is one that
a. has been distorted by lopping off the highest scores. b. is strongly influenced by outliers. c. is unrepresentative of what it purports to measure. d. has been truncated equally at the two extremes.