Examining Causality of Research MCQ

Experiments focus primarily on maximizing ______.

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Correct Answer: Internal validity

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A researcher conducts an experiment to examine the effect of television advertisements on consumer behavior. Consumer behavior is the ______.

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Correct Answer: Dependent variable

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Which of the following is not a requirement for an experiment?

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Correct Answer: Random selection to the sample

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Threats to internal validity are ______ in order to demonstrate a cause–effect relationship.

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Correct Answer: Confounds that must be controlled

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The threat to internal validity in which an event is the confounding variable is called ______.

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Correct Answer: History

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The threat to internal validity due to participants developing at different rates is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Maturation

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Researcher wants to use simple random assignment in an experiment with two groups. Which of the following procedures might he use?

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Correct Answer: Rolling dice and assigning those with even numbers to Group 1 and those with odd numbers to Group 2

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Which of the following is not one of the criteria of causality?

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Correct Answer: Independence

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A researcher conducts an experiment to examine the effect of television advertisements on consumer behavior. The advertisement is the ______.

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Correct Answer: Independent variable

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The phenomenon in which a researcher unintentionally treats the groups differently so that results support the hypothesis is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Experimenter expectancy effects

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A control group in an experiment is promised the same treatment as the experimental group after the experimental group has completed treatment and both groups have been assessed.

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Correct Answer: Waitlist control

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Confounds that must be controlled so that a cause−effect relationship can be demon-strated is threat to internal validity

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Correct Answer: True

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Stratified random assignment is a procedure in which the researcher identifies strata of participants based on key characteristics

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Correct Answer: True

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Simple random assignment is a procedure in which each participant is assigned to one level of the IV so that every participant has an equal chance of experiencing any of the IV levels.

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Correct Answer: True

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Systematic changes to a scenario is scenario ___

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Correct Answer: Manipulations

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In experiments where the participants experience all levels of the IV, the participants all have an equal chance of experi-encing the IV levels in a certain order is random assignment to order of conditions

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Correct Answer: True

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Process of assigning participants to IV conditions (or order of conditions) that is based on chance is called ___ assigmnt

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Correct Answer: Random

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____ experiment is research design that includes a key characteristic of an experiment, namely, manipulation of a variable.

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Correct Answer: Quasi

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Process of identifying those who have characteristics that the researcher wants to include or exclude in the study is called

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Correct Answer: Pre Screening

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A treatment or substance that in and of itself has no therapeutic effect, such as a sugar pill is called placebo

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Correct Answer: True

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Systematic changes to participants’ or subjects’ physical functioning is physiological manipulations

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Correct Answer: True

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One group pretest posttest design is nonexperimental design in which all participants are tested prior to exposure to a variable of interest and again after exposure.

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Correct Answer: True

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____ random assignment is process in which participants are put into matched sets and then each member of the set is assigned to one IV level so that all in the set have an equal chance of experiencing any of the levels.

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Correct Answer: Match

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The process of verifying that the participants attended to the manipulation is manipulation check

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Correct Answer: True

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The way the researcher creates the con-ditions of the ___ manipulation

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Correct Answer: IV

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The degree to which we can say that we found an accurate relationship among variables, in that changes in one variable (the DV) are caused by changes in another variable (the IV). Relevant only to studies exam-ining causation is ____ validity

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Correct Answer: Internal

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Systematic changes to instructions, educational information, or feedback is ___Manipulations

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Correct Answer: Instructional

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Independent group experiment in which each participant experiences only one level of the IV.

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Correct Answer: True

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The variable that is manipulated in an experiment is known as

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Correct Answer: Independent variable

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Phenomenon in which participants change their behavior simply because they are in a study and have the attention of researchers is called hawthorne effect

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Correct Answer: True

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Design in which a researcher compares two or more groups of participants who are exposed to different levels of a variable of interest is called group design

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Correct Answer: True

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Phenomenon in which a researcher unintention-ally treats the groups differently so that results support the _______ is called rosenthal effecf

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Correct Answer: Hypotheses

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The group that receives a certain amount or level of the IV is called experimental group

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Correct Answer: True

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See Experimental research is called

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Correct Answer: Experiment

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Systematic changes to the ______ environment is known as environmental manipulations.

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Correct Answer: Physical

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A type of external validity that assesses the degree to which a study’s findings generalize to real-world settings is called

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Correct Answer: Ecological validity

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Double blind experiment is an experiment in which neither the participants nor the researcher interacting with the participants know which participants have been assigned to each condition

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Correct Answer: True

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The treatment administered to one group is shared with another group through cross-group interactions is called diffusion of treatment

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Correct Answer: True

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Experiment in which the groups are related, in that participants were matched prior to exposure to the IV or in that the participants expe-rience all levels of the IV is called

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Correct Answer: Dependent groups experiment

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The variable that is mea-sured in an experiment and is expected to vary or change based on the IV manipulation is called

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Correct Answer: Dependent variable

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Characteristics of the study that lead a participant to guess at the study’s hypothesis and change their behavior accordingly is called demand characteristics

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Correct Answer: True

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The group that receives the ____ level of the IV is called control group

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Correct Answer: Zero

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A variable that varies systematically with the variables of interest in a study and is a potential alternative explanation for causality is called

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Correct Answer: Confound

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_______ is someone who is working with the researcher but pretends to be a participant or bystander.

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Correct Answer: Confederate

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The values of the _____ is called conditions

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Correct Answer: IV

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Cluster random assignment is procedure in which clus-ters of individuals are assigned to one level of the IV so that each cluster has an ______ chance of experiencing any of the IV levels.

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Correct Answer: Equal

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Relationship between cause and effect, in that one variable is shown to have caused the observed change in another variable is called causation

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Correct Answer: True

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An experiment in which the partici-pants know they have been assigned to one particular IV condition but they do not know which one is called blind experiment

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Correct Answer: True

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