Occupational Prestige Scores

question 11

Multiple Choice

Occupational prestige scores

• A) vary a great deal over time
• B) are stable over time
• C) are stable over time in less economically developed nations, but unstable over time in western industrial societies
• D) are not correlated with class identification
• E) are meaningless figments of Dr. Beeghley's imagination

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Definitions:

Selection Differences

Differences in the type of subjects who make up each group in an experimental design; this situation occurs whenparticipants elect which groupthey are to be assigned to.

Independent Variable

In experimental research, the factor that is altered by the scientist to observe how it affects a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is expected to change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.

Regression Toward the Mean

The phenomenon that extreme scores or outcomes are likely to be followed by less extreme ones, moving closer to the average.