SECTION I: Short Cases
Part A: Sampling
Case 1: Sampling Hispanic Adults by Telephone
Case 2: Using a Sample of Convenience
Case 3: Using Quota Sampling
Case 4: Using an Incentive to Increase Response Rate
Case 5: Obtaining a Sample of Psychotherapy Clients
Part B: Measurement
Case 6: Measuring the Attractiveness of Participants
Case 7: Measuring Social Desirability
Case 8: Measuring Studentsâ Distant Memories
Case 9: Evaluating an Acculturation Scale
Case 10: Determining the Validity of Self-Reports
Part C: Operational Definitions
Case 11: Defining âPhysical Abuseâ of Children
Case 12: Defining âEconomic Well-Beingâ
Case 13: Defining âSubstance Abuseâ Among Pregnant Women
Case 14: Defining a âSocial Interactionâ
Case 15: Defining âSexâ in a National Survey
Part D: Procedures
Case 16: Controlling the Distribution of a Questionnaire in a Nutrition Study
Case 17: Identifying Duplicate Responses to an Anonymous Questionnaire
Case 18: Using a Simulated Setting to Evaluate Disciplinary Fairness Training
Case 19: Using Confederates in an Experiment
Case 20: Working with Severely Angry Participants
Part E: Experimental/Causal Comparative Designs
Case 21: Selecting Participants for a Comparison of Asian and White Americans
Case 22: Forming Experimental and Control Groups in a Study of Drug Prevention
Case 23: Forming Comparison Groups in Classroom Research on Reading
Case 24: Forming Comparison Groups for a Study of Postpartum Disorders
Case 25: Identifying Comparison Groups for a Study of Childhood Abuse
Part F: Protecting the Rights of Participants/Ethical Considerations
Case 26: Using Deception in a Study of Social Interactions
Case 27: Prescreening Adolescents for Stress
Case 28: Estimating HIV Rates Among Young Men
Case 29: Soliciting Professors for a Study of Their Intellect
Case 30: Hiding the Purpose of a Study from Employees
Part G: Interpretation of Results
Case 31: Interpreting Cause-and-Effect: Health Risk Behaviors of Adolescents
Case 32: Interpreting Results in Light of Social Desirability
Case 33: Evaluating Attrition in a Study on Hypnosis
Case 34: Interpreting Differences in Physical Victimization
Case 35: Interpreting Reported Differences in Husbandsâ Marital Aggression
SECTION II: LONGER CASES
Case 36: Using Interviews to Measure Mothersâ Use of Physical Discipline
Descriptor: Measurement
Case 37: Defining Group Therapy Used with Elementary School Children
Descriptor: Operational Definition
Case 38: Getting Informed Consent for Research During an Emergency
Descriptor: Ethics
Case 39: Interpreting Data on Cigarette Smoking by Seventh Graders
Descriptor: Interpretation
Case 40: Encouraging Responses to a Mailed Survey
Descriptors: Sampling, Interpretation
Case 41: Interpreting Limitations in a Study of Childhood Cancer and Stress
Descriptors: Sampling, Interpretation
Case 42: Studying the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages to Minors
Descriptors: Sampling, Procedures, Ethics
Case 43: Identifying Heroin Addicts Who Falsify Information
Descriptors: Sampling, Measurement, Ethics
Case 44: Observing Childrenâs Aggressiveness on the Playground
Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics, Interpretation
Case 45: Introducing Participants to a Study on Lie Telling
Descriptors: Measurement, Operational Definitions, Procedures
Case 46: Measuring Sex-Role Stereotyping Among Children
Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics
Case 47: Studying Suicide Ideation and Acculturation Among Adolescents
Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics
Case 48: Encouraging Truthfulness in Telephone Interviews
Descriptors: Measurement, Interpretation
Case 49: Estimating the Credibility of Young Childrenâs Reports
Descriptors: Measurement, Ethics, Interpretation
Case 50: Designing an Experiment on Cross-Cultural Training
Descriptors: Measurement, Experimental Design, Ethics, Interpretation
Case 51: Designing an Experiment on Worrying Among the Elderly
Descriptors: Operational Definition, Experimental Design, Interpretation
Case 52: Designing an Experiment on Reducing the Risk of Bulimia
Descriptors: Operational Definition, Experimental Design
Case 53: Interpreting a âNatural Experimentâ on Anonymous Testing for HIV
Descriptors: Causal Comparative Design, Interpretation
