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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