WEEK 5: Experimental methods 1 Flashcards
What is the assumption that it is possible to discover the regularities that exist in nature?
A. Variable
B. Discoverability
C. Operationalism
D. Control
Discoverability
What is the elimination of the influence of extraneous variables called?
A. Variable
B. Discoverability
C. Operationalism
D. Control
Control
What are the preferred research method when you need to address the issue of cause and effect?
A. Variables
B. hypothesis
C. Experiments
D. Experimental methods
Experiments
Improvement due to participants’ expectations for improvement rather than the actual treatment
A. Hypothesis
B. Operationalism
C. Operational definition
D. Placebo effect
Placebo effect
Representing constructs by a specific set of operations
A. Hypothesis
B. Operationalism
C. Operational definition
D. Placebo effect
Operationalism
Defining a concept by the operations used to represent or measure it
A. Operationalism
B. Operational definition
Operational definition
The outline, plan, or strategy used to investigate the research problem
A. One-group posttest-only design
B. Research design
C. Weak experimental designs
D. Strong experimental designs
Research design
Designs that do not control for many extraneous variables and provide weak evidence of cause and effect
A. One-group posttest-only design
B. Research design
C. Weak experimental designs
D. Strong experimental designs
Weak experimental designs
Administration of a posttest to a single group of participants after they have been given an experimental treatment condition
A. One-group posttest-only design
B. Research design
C. Weak experimental designs
D. Strong experimental designs
One-group posttest-only design
Design in which a treatment condition is interjected between a pretest and posttest of the dependent variable
A. One-group posttest-only design
B. Research design
C. Weak experimental designs
D. One-group pretest–posttest design
One-group pretest–posttest design
Experimental design with random assignment to experimental and control groups
A. Experimental group
B. Control group
C. Randomized control trial
D. Strong experimental designs
Randomized control trial (RTC)
The group of participants that does not receive the active treatment condition and serves as a stan-dard of comparison for determining whether the treatment con-dition produced any causal effect
A. Experimental group
B. Control group
C. Randomized control trial
D. Strong experimental designs
Control group
The group of partici-pants that receives the treatment condition that is intended to produce an effect
A. Experimental group
B. Control group
C. Randomized control trial
D. Strong experimental designs
Experimental group
