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PSYCH 610 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework Exercise

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  2. This archive file of PSYCH 610 Week 5 Individual Assignment Homework Exercise shows the solutions to the following problems: 1. What are single-case designs and when are they most useful?
  3. 2. How may a researcher enhance the generalizability of the results of a single case design?
  4. 3. What is the relationship between quasi-experiments and confounding variables? Provide an example.
  5. 4. Provide examples of: one-group posttest designs and one-group pretest and posttest designs. What are the limitations of each?
  6. 5. Provide examples of non-equivalent control group designs. What are the advantages of having a control group?
  7. 6. What is a quasi-experimental research design? Why would a researcher use a quasi-experimental design rather than a true experimental design?
  8. 7. What is the difference between a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study? What is a sequential study? Which of these designs is most vulnerable to cohort effects? Which design is most vulnerable to the effects of attrition?
  9. 8. What are the differences between: needs assessment, program assessment, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and efficacy assessment? Why is program evaluation important to the field?
  10. 9. A researcher wants to investigate patriotic behavior across the lifespan. She samples people in the following age groups: 18
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  14. Answer the following questions, covering material from Ch 8–10 of Methods in Behavioral Research :
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  16. 1.  What is a confounding variable and why do researchers try to eliminate confounding variables? Provide two examples of confounding variables.
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  21. 2.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of posttest only design and pretest-posttest design 3.  What is meant by sensitivity of a dependent variable? 4.  What are the differences between an independent groups design and a repeated measures design? 5.  How does an experimenter’s expectations and participant expectations affect outcomes? 6.  Provide an example of a factorial design. What are the key features of a factorial design? What are the advantages of a factorial design? 7.  Describe at least four different dependent variables. 8.  What are some ways researchers can manipulate independent variables? 9.  What is the difference between main effects and interactions?
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  23. How do moderator variables impact results? Provide an example.
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  25. 10.  A researcher is interested in studying the effects of story endings on preference ratings. He randomly assigns participants into two groups: predictable ending or surprise ending. He instructs them to read the story and provide preference ratings. The experimenter’s variation of story endings is a __Straightforward____ (straightforward or staged) manipulation.
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  27. 11.  A researcher was interested in investigating the vocabulary skills of 6th graders in a program for gifted students. She gave a group of participants a test of vocabulary that was aimed at the 7th-grade level. She quickly discovered that there was limited variability in the scores because nearly all the students answered 90% or more of the questions correctly. This outcome is called a _Ceiling___ effect
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