CD 170L Review: Week #1

What is Professor Acosta's dog's name?

• Mochi

• Pistachio

• Peanut

• Charger

When observing children, which of your two senses will you most typically use?

• See and Touch

• Taste and Hear

• Smell and Touch

• See and Hear

When observing children you should be inconspicuous.

• True

• False

When observing children you should be subjective.

• True

• False

Including more information than is actually present in the situation is:

• Errors of Omission

• Errors of Commission

• Errors of Transmission

• Error 404

What are the three aspects of the observation process:

• Observe, Predictions, Conclusion

• Watch, React, Analysis

• Objective, Interpretation, Evaluation

• Write,

  Observe,

  Analysis

Informal observation methods are less strict and less structured.

• True

• False

Open observation methods DO NOT preserve raw data.

• True

• False

In the lecture notes, degree of selectivity was compared to the example of:

• a fishing net

• a fishing pole

• fishing bait

• fish in an aquarium

Inference means the same thing as:

• guess

• interpretation

• prediction

• outcome