In a Research Project Investigating Power Relationships in Speech, First-Semester

question 14

Multiple Choice

In a research project investigating power relationships in speech, first-semester college freshman and college seniors were invited to a laboratory in equal numbers. There, they were asked to chat and get to know each other before the real experiment began. The researchers actually analyzed the number of interruptions that people made in the course of a conversation. This is an example of __________ research.

• A) Naturalistic observation
• B) Participant observer
• C) Laboratory observation
• D) Archival

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Definitions:

College Student

An individual who is enrolled in and attending courses at a college or university.

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability, calculated as the difference between the upper and lower quartiles, indicating the spread of the middle 50% of the dataset.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, providing a measure of the overall spread.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion indicating how far each number in the set is from the mean and from each other.