Questions Below Will Be Based on the Following: a Researcher

question 17

Multiple Choice

Questions below will be based on the following: A researcher was interested in discovering whether attitude changes can be more effectively brought about when persons are made to feel part of the decision making process. A group of women was selected and randomly assigned to one of two groups, one group being placed in a large lecture hall, and the other in a small discussion-group setting. In the lecture setting, a speaker exhorted the women to use less expensive cuts of meat, whereas in the small-group setting a different group leader, although raising the same issues as the lecture had, also encouraged the subjects to participate in the discussion and offer suggestions, Several weeks later both groups of women were checked at home to determine whether they were indeed using the meat cuts which had been urged. Only 3% of the lecture group members had the meat cuts, whereas 32% of the discussion group members had the meat cuts. The difference was clearly significant.
-Whether the women were subjected to the lecture method or the group discussion method, defined the

• A) control group
• B) assigned variable
• C) dependent variable
• D) independent variable

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Definitions:

Certainty

The state of being absolutely confident or sure about something.

Material Self

The extension of the self into the body, clothes, and possessions.

Possessions

Objects owned by an individual, often holding personal value or significance.

Moral Center

An individual's internal ethical framework that guides their beliefs, values, and actions.