An advantage of conducting a true experiment in the laboratory (as opposed to conducting a true experiment in the field) is that in the laboratory, it is somewhat easier to:
A) use random assignment
B) maximize external validity
C) maximize attrition
D) eliminate confounds
D
You might also like to view...
What greatly influenced the harsh attitude toward same-sex behaviors in the early American colonies?
a. The strong influence of the Catholic Church b. The Puritanical origins of the early settlers c. Interaction with Native Americans who condoned homosexuality d. Early venereal diseases spread in the colonies by men who were gay
If researchers report that the results from their study were significant, p < 0.05, this means that a. if they conducted the study over they would get the same results less than 5 times in 100. b. the results are untrustworthy
c. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 95 times out of 100. d. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 5 times out of 100.
A grade-schooler says, "Whenever you're bad, you must get spanked 10 times.". This fixed notion of punishment for its own sake is called
a. expiatory punishment. b. the doctrine of specificity. c. proactive aggression. d. self-oriented distress.
The variance of the sampling distribution of the mean is _____ the variance each of the samples
a. less than c. equal to b. more than d. none of these