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The Ontario provincial government banned smoking in public places and workplaces in 2004.Dr.Sandy Smokesless used public records to compare the incidence rates of lung cancers before and after 2004 to determine whether the smoking ban helped address the threat smoking poses to the health of Ontarians.What sort of experimental research is this?


A) Factorial design
B) Natural experiment
C) Latin square design
D) Interrupted time series design
E) Field research

F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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Identify the two groups in a simple experiment and specify which one receives the treatment.What determines what the independent and dependent variables are?

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●The experimental group is the group tha...

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Define the following: -testing effect

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A pretest measure that itself ...

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Define the following: -equivalent time series

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An experimenter uses a "2 x 3" design.To what exactly do the numbers refer?


A) A factorial design with two independent variables and three dependent variables
B) A time series design with two dependent variables and three observations
C) A Latin square design with three groups
D) A factorial design with two categories in one treatment and three in the other
E) A static group comparison design with six dependent variables

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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What is the name for the experimental design in the following symbolic representation? OXO


A) One group pretest post-test
B) One shot case study
C) Two group post-test only
D) Static group comparison
E) Factorial design

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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Define the following: -laboratory experiment

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Experimental research that tak...

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Define the following: -design notation

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The name of a symbol system us...

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Define the following: -diffusion of treatment

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A threat to internal validity that occur...

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What is a "placebo" in experimental research?


A) When an experimenter deceives subjects about the experiment's true nature,then later tells them what it is really about
B) When subjects in a control group are treated the same as the subjects receiving the treatment
C) When subjects in the control group receive a false or empty treatment so they do not adjust their behaviour to confirm the experimenter's hypothesis
D) When neither the subjects nor an assistant helping the experimenter know specifics about the treatment or how hypothesis is being tested
E) When an event outside the experiment's control occurs during the experiment and affects the dependent variable

F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

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Define the following: -placebo

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A false treatment or one that ...

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In experiments,the treatment variable is simply another term for


A) the independent variable.
B) random assignment.
C) the dependent variable.
D) the control group.
E) the intervening variable.

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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Define the following: -treatment

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The name for the int...

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Define the following: -static group comparison

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Tommy Tackle,the coach at Coastal Mountain High School,is designing a training program for the track team.He knows that exercises A,B,and C are recommended,but is not sure which order he should have his team members train in (i.e.,A,B,C,or C,A,B,etc.) .What type of experimental design would he use to test the relative effectiveness of the different training sequences?


A) One-group pretest-post-test
B) Solomon four-group design
C) Latin square design
D) Classical experiment design
E) Post-test only design

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Define the following: -one-shot case study

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While studying rates of language acquisition for new Canadians from different countries,Curtis Cunning's research assistants informed him that 7 of the 65 subjects had quit and walked out before the study was completed.What type of threat to internal validity does Curtis' experiment have?


A) Selection bias
B) History effect
C) Experimental mortality
D) Maturation
E) Testing effect

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Define the following: -interaction effects

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The effect of two independent variables ...

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Define the following: -field experiment

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Experimental researc...

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Distinguish between random assignment and random selection and then describe how the two are connected.How does random assignment work in practice?

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