A Peace Psychologist Collects Transcripts of 30 Speeches Delivered by a National

question 4

Multiple Choice

A peace psychologist collects transcripts of 30 speeches delivered by a national leader in the six months before a major war.She is interested in testing the hypothesis that the leader's speeches promoted aggression in the lead up to the war, a hypothesis that the leader strongly denied in a major television interview after retiring from politics.Which of the following statements is false?

• A)This is not valid research as it is politically biased (peace psychologists are obviously opposed to war).
• B)The coding system might involve breaking the speeches into units that can be rated by independent coders in terms of the degree that they promote war.
• C)This is valid research because war is wrong.
• D)It would be desirable to train the coders in the use of the coding scheme but in doing to make sure that bias is not introduced into the scoring procedure.
• E)Both (a)and (c).

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