Exam 2: Understanding: Learning About Intimate Behavior

In Panel 2.2 (page 59)what theoretical perspective emphasizes relationships based on costs and rewards?

Uncritical thinking is dangerous because it

________ is the degree to which a research measurement actually measures what it claims.

A researcher who conducts a study more than once in an attempt to produce similar results is concerned with validity.

________ said, "If people define situations as real, they become real in their consequences."

List, describe, compare, and contrast the five principal kinds of scientific research methods.

Critical thinking can be learned.

According to Ellen J. Langer, one should approach any new information as if there are alternative explanations.

Discuss W. I. Thomas's concept of "definition of the situation." Cite the three mechanisms upon which the symbolic perspective rests.

___________ studies require the most time.

Talcott Parsons advocated which perspective on family?

Mindfulness is characterized by entrapment in old categories, automatic behavior, and acting from a single perspective.

Discuss the role of women in the family from the feminist perspective.

A researcher who links Attention Deficit Disorder in preschoolers to the amount of television they watch is applying which perspective?

Data collected from a sample group over several years is called a ________ study.

The comfortable patterns of thinking we acquire in a lifetime are called

Clinical research is useful in obtaining intimate data from patients and then using that information to generalize across the population.

Discuss the ethical concerns surrounding observational research. How often is the observation method used? Should this method be used more or less often? Why?

Debate the feminist perspective's concept of oppression of women in marriage. Identify and outline three goals of the feminist perspective.

Responses to a magazine survey are an example of