What Have Studies of Children in Large Families Found

question 1

Multiple Choice

What have studies of children in large families found?

• A)The children have better language development because there are many people to talk to.
• B)The children often live in neighbourhoods with good role models.
• C)The children often have difficulties with academics and social interaction.
• D)The children's nutrition is better because their parents care more about what they eat.

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

The extent to which the design and conduct of a study allow for accurate attribution of outcomes to the intervention or treatment, rather than to confounding variables.

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

A quasi-experimental research design where the experimental group and control group may not be strictly comparable at the outset of the experiment, lacking random assignment.

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.