Chapter Self-Test

[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]

Home

Chapter 5

Chapter Self-Test

This activity contains 6 questions.

A study in which the attitudes of boys and girls in the rural US are compared to the attitudes of boys and girls from the urban US would not be called an experiment because

children could not be randomly assigned to gender.there is no independent variable that is manipulated by the researcher.the data would come from self-reports rather than objective tests.the research hypotheses would probably not be directional.

The structure by which variables are arranged in an experiment is called the

experimental design.causal-comparative grid.variable grid.factor structure.

An experimental design in which changes in the dependent variable can be unambiguously attributed to changes in the independent variable is said to have

experimental reliability.statistical conclusion validity.investigative validity.internal validity.

External validity has to do with

the credibility of experimental results to external audiences.the extent to which experimental results can be generalized.the outside appearance of experimental results.the control of extraneous variables.

A posttest-only control group design with random assignment to groups is still susceptible to which threat to internal validity?

experimental mortalityhistorystatistical regressionmaturation

Which combination below could not occur for an experiment?

high internal validity – low external validitylow internal validity – high external validitylow internal validity – low external validityhigh internal validity – high external validity

The Submit Answers for Grading feature requires scripting to function. Your browser either does not support scripting or you have turned scripting off.

So, the Submit Answers for Grading button below will not work.

The following Submit Answers for Grading button is provided in its place and will clear your answers:
The Clear Answers and Start Over feature requires scripting to function. Your browser either does not support scripting or you have turned scripting off.

So, the Clear Answers and Start Over button below will not work.

The following Clear Answers button is provided in its place and will clear your answers:

Your browser either does not support scripting or you have turned scripting off. Because of this, the answer choices will NOT appear in a different order each time the page is loaded, though that is mentioned below. Note that you do not need this feature to use this site.

Answer choices in this exercise appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.