Case 1: Sampling Hispanic Adults by Telephone

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Case 2: Using a Sample of Convenience

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Case 3: Using Quota Sampling

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Case 4: Using an Incentive to Increase Response Rate

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Case 5: Obtaining a Sample of Psychotherapy Clients

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Case 6: Measuring the Attractiveness of Participants

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Case 7: Measuring Social Desirability

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Case 8: Measuring Students’ Distant Memories

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Case 9: Evaluating an Acculturation Scale

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Case 10: Determining the Validity of Self-Reports

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Case 11: Defining "Physical Abuse" of Children

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Case 12: Defining "Economic Well-Being"

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Case 13: Defining "Substance Abuse" Among Pregnant Women

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Case 14: Defining a "Social Interaction"

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Case 15: Defining "Sex" in a National Survey

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Case 16: Controlling the Distribution of a Questionnaire in a Nutrition Study

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Case 17: Identifying Duplicate Responses to an Anonymous Questionnaire

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Case 18: Using a Simulated Setting to Evaluate Disciplinary Fairness Training

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Case 19: Using Confederates in an Experiment

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Case 20: Working with Severely Angry Participants

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Case 21: Selecting Participants for a Comparison of Asian and White Americans

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Case 22: Forming Experimental and Control Groups in a Study of Drug Prevention

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Case 23: Forming Comparison Groups in Classroom Research on Reading

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Case 24: Forming Comparison Groups for a Study of Postpartum Disorders

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Case 25: Identifying Comparison Groups for a Study of Childhood Abuse

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Case 26: Using Deception in a Study of Social Interactions

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Case 27: Prescreening Adolescents for Stress

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Case 28: Estimating HIV Rates Among Young Men

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Case 29: Soliciting Professors for a Study of Their Intellect

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Case 30: Hiding the Purpose of a Study from Employees

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Case 31: Interpreting Cause-and-Effect: Health Risk Behaviors of Adolescents

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Case 32: Interpreting Results in Light of Social Desirability

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Case 33: Evaluating Attrition in a Study on Hypnosis

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Case 34: Interpreting Differences in Physical Victimization

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Case 35: Interpreting Reported Differences in Husbands’ Marital Aggression

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Case 36: Using Interviews to Measure Mothers’ Use of Physical Discipline
     Descriptor: Measurement

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Case 37: Defining Group Therapy Used with Elementary School Children
     Descriptor: Operational Definition

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Case 38: Getting Informed Consent for Research During an Emergency
     Descriptor: Ethics 

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Case 39: Interpreting Data on Cigarette Smoking by Seventh Graders
     Descriptor: Interpretation 

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Case 40: Encouraging Responses to a Mailed Survey
     Descriptors: Sampling, Interpretation 

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Case 41: Interpreting Limitations in a Study of Childhood Cancer and Stress
     Descriptors: Sampling, Interpretation

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Case 42: Studying the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages to Minors
     Descriptors: Sampling, Procedures, Ethics 

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Case 43: Identifying Heroin Addicts Who Falsify Information
     Descriptors: Sampling, Measurement, Ethics 

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Case 44: Observing Children’s Aggressiveness on the Playground
     Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics, Interpretation

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Case 45: Introducing Participants to a Study on Lie Telling
     Descriptors: Measurement, Operational Definitions, Procedures 

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Case 46: Measuring Sex-Role Stereotyping Among Children
     Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics

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Case 47: Studying Suicide Ideation and Acculturation Among Adolescents
     Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics

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Case 48: Encouraging Truthfulness in Telephone Interviews
     Descriptors: Measurement, Interpretation

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Case 49: Estimating the Credibility of Young Children’s Reports
     Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics, Interpretation

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Case 50: Designing an Experiment on Cross-Cultural Training
     Descriptors: Measurement, Experimental Design, Ethics, Interpretation

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Case 51: Designing an Experiment on Worrying Among the Elderly
     Descriptors: Operational Definition, Experimental Design, Interpretation

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Case 52: Designing an Experiment on Reducing the Risk of Bulimia
     Descriptors: Operational Definition, Experimental Design

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Case 53: Interpreting a "Natural Experiment" on Anonymous Testing for HIV
     Descriptors: Causal Comparative Design, Interpretation

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