Karen Is Teaching Knitting as a Means to Increase Fine

question 69

Multiple Choice

Karen is teaching knitting as a means to increase fine motor skills in her occupational therapy sessions. Cynthia is a qualitative researcher who has enrolled in the class as a student to experience the new 'therapy'. Cynthia feels that Jacob, a student in the class, will not benefit from the training since he is a large male she feels that knitting is better for females with smaller hands. In fact, in her field notes Cynthia finds support that indeed, the knitting therapy does not seem to be a positive experience for Jacob.
-Cynthia could best decrease the threat to validity in her study by

• A) increasing the number of data sources.
• B) spending less time in the field.
• C) modifying the type of observations that she makes.
• D) not including her reflections in her field notes.

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Definitions:

Founder Effects

A genetic phenomenon where a new population starts from a few ancestors, leading to a reduced genetic variation compared to the original population.

Translation

In genetics, the process of conversion of RNA instructions into proteins.

Macroevolutionary Model

A theoretical framework that looks at the large-scale evolutionary changes that occur over long periods, including the formation of new species and the extinction of others.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution involving random changes in the frequency of alleles within a population over time, not necessarily driven by natural selection.