Cox and Demmitt Prefer the Term Acquaintance Violence Because It

question 113

Multiple Choice

Cox and Demmitt prefer the term acquaintance violence because it is:

• A) less stigmatizing than the term date rape.
• B) a much broader term than date rape.
• C) the official government term for date rape.
• D) widely used by feminist scholars.

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Definitions:

Main Effects

Refers to the direct impact of independent variables on dependent variables in a statistical model, without considering interactions between variables.

Total Mean

The overall average value of a dataset, calculated by summing all observations and dividing by the total number of observations.

Alternative Hypothesis

A hypothesis that proposes a statistical relationship between variables, opposite to the null hypothesis suggesting no relationship.

Main Effect

The direct impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experimental design.