Question

Hypothesis 4: frequency of child abuse is related to the parents' ages when they married 1- What type of relationship would you predict (positive linear, negative linear, and so on)? 2- Graph and label the relationship you predict. State a prediction based on the relationship shown by your graph. 3- Which methods (experimental or nonexperimental) would you use to test this hypothesis? why? 4- Which is the independent or "cause" variable and which is the dependent or "effect" variable? 5- State an operational definition for each variable. If experimental, describe how the independent variable might be manipulated and dependent variable measured. If nonexperimental, describe how both variables might be measured

Answer 1

1. Negetive linear relatioship would be predict in above where one circumstances is increase and other is decreasing. Here frequency of child ' s abuse with related to parents ' s is negetively corelated.  

2. Experimental method should used to test the hypothesis .

3. Parent's age when they married is cause and independent variable which creates effect on dependent variable is child abusive.  

4. Operational definition :

child abusive :

The child abusive reffer to non- accidental and intentionally hurt and injured chilldren like emotional maltreatment , cruel punishment , deprivation of necessities .