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1. Ray is comparing the heart rates of a group of former smokers to non-smokers after they have walked on a treadmill for 15 minutes. This would be an example of a: In developmental research a cohort is :
2. The terman life cycle study began in 1921 and tracked California schoolchildren with particular intelligent scores. This study measured aspects of the individual's cognitive and social development until their death. This is an example of a
3. If exposure to an earlier measure affects behavior when a participant is measured a second time, the researcher might suspect which type of effect?
4. Any naturally occurring change within the individual that has an effect on the dependent variable as a __effect.
5. In a program designed to help teenagers gain summer employment, a researcher measures whether or not the program has actually increased the number of teenagers finding jobs. The researcher is involved in which phase of evaluation?
6. Which of the following describes longitudinal study?
7. Which of the following is true with regard to single case designs
8. Dr. Gorton is studying the effect of exercise on cholesterol level. He first measures his patient's cholesterol level before recommending an exercise program and after one month of participating in an exercise program, he measures their cholesterol level again. What type of research design has Dr. Gorton employed?
9. Regression toward the mean refers to the fact that:
10. The question "Do single income families have child care pro0blems different than dual income families? Would be asked in which phase of program evaluation?
11. Casual inference in quasi-experimental designs is __ difficult than in true experiments because qasi-experimental designs __ the important features of true designs.
12. The ABAB design:.
13. A graduating college senior takes the GRE _Graduate Record Exam) and cores at the 95th percentile. Six months later the senior retakes the exam after completing all undergraduate coursework and scores at the 89th percentile. What (other than boring coursework) most likely accounts for the lowered score?
14. The serious flaw associated with the nonequivalent control group design is that __ occur. A researcher investigates the effect of weather on college students study habits. On a sunny day, the researcher sat in the quad and recorded the number of minutes of study per student. What is the crucial element missing in this design?
15. Which is the more common method longitudinal or cross sectional
16. What is the advantage of the pretest in the nonequivalent control group pretest posttest design?
17. To examine how a reward influences a desired behavior, a mother first counts the number of times her son makes his bed over a two week period. For the next two weeks, she gives him a reward every time he make his bed. Following this period, she stops giving him a reward and gain counts the number of times he makes his bed. This procedure would be an example of a (n) __ design?
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