Chapter 8

Matching Quiz

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. The _____ of an experiment is a matter of how well it controls for the effects of extraneous variables.
2. This effect is likely to be confounded with the independent variable when a single group is studied over an extended period of time.
3. Randomization is designed to rule out this threat to internal validity.
4. A threat to internal validity when a single group is measured two or more times in the same study.
5. Likely to affect experimental results when subjects are selected on the basis of their extreme scores on the dependent variable
6. A threat to internal validity created by systematic variation over time or across experimental conditions in the measurement of the dependent variable.
7. A threat to internal validity when the loss of subjects varies from one experimental condition to another.
8. Selection and differential attrition are the primary threats to the internal validity of this pre-experimental design.
9. One problem with this design is that it is susceptible to a testing-X interaction effect.
10. This true experimental design effectively eliminates the possibility of testing-X interaction.
11. In this experimental design the same subjects participate in both treatment and control conditions.
12. An experiment in which two or more variables are manipulated.
13. A factorial design with two independent variables consisting of the treatment condition (presence or absence) and the pretest (presence or absence).
14. The effect of one independent variable on the dependent variable depends on the level of another independent variable.
15. When the entire population receives the treatment, this quasi- experimental design may be used by randomly selecting subjects measured before and subjects measured after the treatment.
16. In this quasi-experimental design, pretests and posttests are are administered to treatment and control groups but random assignment is not possible.
17. Resembles the one-group pretest-posttest design except there are multiple observations before and after the treatment.
18. Controls for the effects of history in a time-series analysis by comparing a group exposed to the treatment with other groups that are not.