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FCS380
Sample Questions for Exam 1
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| Professor Marenco found
that the average level of life happiness reported by married people
increased from 1980 to 1990 while the life happiness level of singles
decreased. A variable in this study is:
a. marital status
b. married
c. single
d. a and b only
e. b and c only
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| The PRIMARY ethical
research issue raised by the Milgram study was
a. the administering of the electrical
shocks
b. the examination of obedience as a topic
for study
c. the potential psychological effects of
the coercion and deception on the experimental subjects
d.
the effects of the methods on the learner/confederate
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| Which of the following is a
list of attributes?
a. female, Jewish, educational level
b. plumber, professor, dentist
c. family and consumer scientist,
occupation, sex
d. marital status, 21, violent
e. marital status, occupation, life
happiness level
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| If I know the sex of a
person and I try to predict or guess if he/she is a commuter on the
Metrolink, I am trying to predict the
a. Dependent variable
b.
Independent variable
c.
Attributes
d.
All of the above
e.
None of the above
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| An annotation is
a. A
synthesis of several articles
b. A
collection of abstracts
c. A summarization of an article
d.
All of the above are considered annotations
e.
None of the above are considered annotations
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