PSY-260 QUIZ 4 v1 MJH University Quiz

PSY-260 QUIZ 4 v1 MJH

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Michael Haley

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

5 mins • 1 pt

1. When interrogating experiments, on which of the big validities should a person focus?

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2. Which of the following cannot be found in a one-group, pretest/posttest design?

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3. Observer bias can threaten which of the following big validities?

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4. Dr. Morimoto is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. He assigns half his participants to play a video game for five minutes and the other half to play for seven minutes. He finds that there is no relationship between playing the game longer and being more aggressive. What might be to blame for this null effect?

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5. Dr. Sanderson is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. She assigns half her participants to play a violent video game for 5 minutes and the other half to play the same game for 25 minutes. Afterward, she has them play a board game and has a well-trained coder determine whether they are very aggressive in their playing style, barely aggressive, or not at all aggressive. She finds that a vast majority of her participants, regardless of group assignment, are rated as very aggressive. This outcome would be known as a/an:

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6. A confound that keeps a researcher from finding a relationship between two variables is known as a/an:

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7. Unsystematic variability in a study is also known as:

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8. Testing threats involve ________ whereas instrumentation threats involve ________.

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9. When a double-blind study is not possible, an acceptable alternative may be a ________.

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10. What are the two main reasons to conduct a factorial study?

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