Your Textbook Presents Findings on a Longitudinal Study of African

question 86

Essay

Your textbook presents findings on a longitudinal study of African American families in rural Georgia that involved 611 parents and their 11-year-olds. Half of the families were assigned to a comparison group with no special intervention. The other half were invited to seven two-hour training sessions. Identify three things that the parents learned and three things that the 11-year-olds learned from attending these training sessions.

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Definitions:

Personal

Relating to or affecting a particular individual directly, distinct from others.

Social

Relating to society or its organization, or the interactions and relationships between individuals within a community.

Public

The general population or community at large, often referred to in the context of public opinion or public spaces.

Displaced Point Pattern

A spatial configuration in which points (representing locations or events) are distributed in an irregular or non-uniform manner, leading to variations in density.