Experimental designs in which there are two groups and a treatment is given to one group but the groups are not equivalent because the researcher did not have control over the assignment of the subjects to the groups are called _____ designs
a. factorial c. applied
b. quasi-experimental d. real world
B
Quasi-experimental designs have some of the features of true experiments, but have groups that were not assigned by the experimenter.
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a. Cultural standards for appropriate behavior are not taken into account. b. Cultural standards for appropriate behavior must be taken into account. c. The criteria for personality disorders are culturally universal. d. Cultural standards are only taken into account for Cluster C disorders.
If one group does better on some test, on average, than another group does, we can conclude that the test is biased
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Light-sensitive cells in the retina are called:
A. iris B. cornea C. lens D. photoreceptors
Leticia failed to ride her bike up the hill with her friends. She later asked her father to remove the training wheels from her bike so that she would no longer feel embarrassed. This is an example of which part of social-cognitive theory?
A) The person component B) Residual traits C) Extroversion D) Reciprocal determinism