CJS 225 Wk 5 – Concept Check

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CJS 225 Wk 5 - Concept Check
CJS 225 Wk 5 – Concept Check
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CJS 225 Wk 5 – Concept Check

  1. Question 1

Is the following statement a physical causal explanation or behavioral causal explanation? “hey are not attending the concert because they are traveling that weekend.

 

Behavioral

Physical

  1. Question 2

 

Rachael has been hired by Mane, a fitness company, to see if their new fitness program is an effective method of reducing weight. She recruits 500 overweight people between the ages of 45 to 60 years old and splits them into 2 groups at random. Group A consists of people who take part in Mane’s fitness program for 5 hours a week, while group B consists of people who will undertake cardio and weight training 5 times a week. Both groups are instructed to maintain a balanced diet during the course of the experiment. After 3 months, Rachael finds that group A members have lost 10 percent of body fat, while group B members have lost 3 percent of body fat.

 

Identify the target population.

 

Overweight people in general

Overweight people who participated in the study

Overweight people in group A

Overweight people in group B

  1. Question 3

 

Rachael has been hired by Mane, a fitness company, to see if their new fitness program is an effective method of reducing weight. She recruits 500 overweight people between the ages of 45 to 60 years old and splits them into 2 groups at random. Group A consists of people who take part in Mane’s fitness program for 5 hours a week, while group B consists of people who will undertake cardio and weight training 5 times a week. Both groups are instructed to maintain a balanced diet during the course of the experiment. After 3 months, Rachael finds that group A members have lost 10 percent of body fat, while group B members have lost 3 percent of body fat.

 

Identify the sample.

 

Overweight people in general

Overweight people in group A

Overweight people who participated in the study

Overweight people in group B

  1. Question 4

 

Rachael has been hired by Mane, a fitness company, to see if their new fitness program is an effective method of reducing weight. She recruits 500 overweight people between the ages of 45 to 60 years old and splits them into 2 groups at random. Group A consists of people who take part in Mane’s fitness program for 5 hours a week, while group B consists of people who will undertake cardio and weight training 5 times a week. Both groups are instructed to maintain a balanced diet during the course of the experiment. After 3 months, Rachael finds that group A members have lost 10 percent of body fat, while group B members have lost 3 percent of body fat.

 

The research category that best fits this study is a:

 

Prospective observational study

Randomized controlled experiment

Retrospective observational study

  1. Question 5

 

If the claim, “Exercise reduces the risk of heart diseases,” is true, it implies that exercise would reduce the risk of heart disease in the majority of the individuals who undertake it.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False

  1. Question 6

 

Immanuel Kant’s deontologism urges people to act in a way that produces the most happiness.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False

  1. Question 7

 

In estimating the moral worth of what people do, utilitarianism seems to discount people’s intentions.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False

  1. Question 8

 

Ethical egoism discounts one’s own happiness as of lesser value than the happiness of others.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False

  1. Question 9

 

A moral imperative prescribes an action, not for the sake of some result, but simply because that action is our moral duty.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False

  1. Question 10

 

According to utilitarianism, the idea that what is right and what is wrong are merely a matter of subjective opinion.

  1. T

True

  1. F

False