What is the regression threat in a single group design?

What will be an ideal response?


A regression threat to internal validity, also known as a regression artifact or regression to the mean, is a statistical phenomenon that falsely makes it appear that your group changed to be more like the overall population between the pretest and posttest. If your group was above the population average on the pretest, they will look like they lost ground on the posttest. If they were below the population average on the pretest, they will falsely appear to improve. Regression occurs whenever you have a nonrandom sample from a population and two measures that are imperfectly correlated.

Psychology

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a. massed practice. b. experiential recitation. c. self-regulated learning. d. classical conditioning.

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Currently, in the U.S., one out of every ______ Americans is either in prison or on probation or parole

A. 100 B. 54 C. 32 D. 15

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The cases of Calvin C. Johnson and Cornelius Dupree provide examples of _________________________, or cases in which the police stop investigating other leads and focus only developing evidence against the suspects identified by eyewitnesses and believed to be guilty

A. confirmation bias B. prosecutorial discretion C. police officer discretion D. none of the above

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"I did it because the teacher told me to. If I hadn't done it, she would have made me stay after school." This is an example of _____ reasoning in Kohlberg's system

a. hedonistic b. preconventional c. conventional d. principled

Psychology