In Comparison with the Original Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment, Berk

question 52

Multiple Choice

In comparison with the original Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment, Berk and Newton's replication

• A) found that mediation was more likely than arrest to deter domestic violence.
• B) had greater internal validity.
• C) involved a different setting and no manipulation of the independent variable.
• D) used probability sampling as well as random assignment.
• E) involved different measures of the dependent variable.

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Definitions:

Asynchronous Communication

Communication where interaction does not occur in real-time, allowing participants to engage according to their own schedule.

Virtual Teams

Groups of individuals who work together from different geographical locations, connected by technology such as email, video conferencing, and collaboration tools.

Empirical Rule

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, about 68% of data falls within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three standard deviations.

Mound-Shaped

Refers to a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve often associated with the normal distribution in statistics.