People's religious beliefs

Imagine that you are doing an interview of people's religious beliefs. One day while interviewing participants, without thinking you wear a necklace with a cross on it. You have created a problem called. a. A demand characteristic b. A confound c. Diffusion of treatment d. Lack of experimental realism

Participants do not tell the truth when they report their true feelings

Stephanie is having participants report their feelings of racism on a questionnaire. Suppose the participants do not report their true feelings but rather say they have no racist thoughts. They want to avoid potentially embarrassing responses that will make Stephanie think badly of them. Such a problem is called a. Social desirability b. Reactivity c. Ecological invalidity d. Lack of reliability I think that the answer to this is a. social reliability. Am I on the right track?

Reduce reactivity

Dion is testing children in his study. He takes special care to familiarize them with the experimentor, the equipment, and the procedure begore he begins to collect data. He is attempting to reduce reactivity by using a. Experimental realism b. Habituation c. Unobtrusive measures d. Counterbalancing

Type of study

In conducting his study of reactions to unemployment, Peter tries to select every 10th unemployed person in his country for a telephone interview. Peter had trouble identifying the entire population (no central lists were kept) and could not contact all the potential participants he could identify, because some of them did not have telephones. Which of the following is true about his study? a. He used systematic random sampling b. He used simple random sampling c. His sample is representative of the populations d. His sample is not a truly random sample I believe that the answer for this is d. Is it?

Introduction

I am looking for a skeleton model of how to write an "introductio" to my chosen subject which includes ptsd. What questions of inquiry do I put in? How long should it be, I realize that it sets the stage for what will follow.