In some cases when a nonequivalent control group design with pretest and posttest is used it may not be appropriate to use the same test for the pretest and posttest. In this case a different pretest might be used but one that is correlated with the posttest. Such a pretest is called a
A) proxy pretest.
B) surrogate pretest.
C) split-half pretest.
D) nonequivalent pretest.
A
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A. IQ tests used to determine mental retardation were valid measures of innate intelligence. B. IQ tests used to determine mental retardation were valid measures of multiple intelligence. C. IQ tests used to determine mental retardation were culture-free. D. IQ tests used to determine mental retardation were biased against people of color.
Children at the concrete operational stage possess the logical thinking ability that Piaget called transitive inference, which
a. enables children to measure or visually confirm the sizes of different objects. b. enables children to perceive minute differences among many objects. c. enables children to perform reverse mathematical operations. d. enables children to draw conclusions without the need to double-check them through perception.
Insight therapy that is time-limited and focused on trying to help clients correct the immediate problems in their lives is ________ therapy
a. short-term psychodynamic therapy b. client-centered c. Gestalt d. psychoanalysis
The text cites a case example of Richie, who became shaky and dizzy at Disney World. Richie
thought he was going "crazy" when time slowed down and he began to perceive people around him as mechanical creatures. Richie was suffering from an episode of ______. a. dissociative fugue c. depersonalization b. dissociative amnesia d. malingering