Mr. Murray teaches 3rd grade and has a student who is very disruptive in the classroom. He employs the help of a school psychologist to help him get rid of the disruptive classroom behavior (the student talking without raising their hand).
First, the school psychologist records the frequency of talking without hand raising of the one student for five days. Then the school psychologist has Mr. Murray give the student a piece of candy each time the student raises his hand before talking. This is done for five days. On day 11, the school psychologist has Mr. Murray stop giving the student the candy reinforcer. The behavior of talking without raising his hand returns and withdrawal data is collected for five days. Finally, the reinforcement is implemented permanently and the school psychologist records data for an additional five days. What type of single case design is this?
a. A-B-A design
b. interaction design
c. A-B-A-B design
d. changing criterion design
A type I error occurs whenever
a. we correctly reject a false null hypothesis.
b. we incorrectly reject a true null hypothesis.
c. we incorrectly fail to reject a false null hypothesis.
d. we correctly fail to reject a false null hypothesis.
Which service allows you to secure a copy of a journal that your library does not carry, but
another library does carry?
a) Interlibrary Loan System
b) Library Exchange Program
c) National Borrower's System
d) U.S. Library Transfer Program
Dr. Flemming found a statistically significant relationship between gender and aggressive
playground activity. Dr. Flemming can conclude which of the following?
a) The effect of gender on aggressive playground activity is likely due to chance.
b) The relationship is probably coincidence.
c) The effect of gender on aggressive playground activity is likely not due to chance.
d) Gender causes aggressive playground activity.
The scientific method is described in the textbook as:
a) restricted to use in correlational research
b) having no immediate application at the time research is completed
c) a standard sequence of steps in formulating and answering a question
d) the study of phenomena within the social and cultural context in which they occur
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