Describe the strengths and weaknesses of cross-sectional and longitudinal research.
What will be an ideal response?
The Green Team has won nine weeks in a row, and the Blue Team is angry and wonders what the point is in continuing to try. This is classified as ____.
a. diffusion of treatment
b. compensatory rivalry
c. resentful demoralization
d. compensatory equalization
A psychologist would call the food that was poured into Fido's food dish the
a. unconditioned stimulus.
b. conditioned stimulus.
c. positivereinforcer.
d. primaryreinforcer.
Describe how the relationship between memory ability and age could be examined using a cross-sectional design. How would the relationship be examined with a longitudinal design?
What will be an ideal response?
The Green Team has won six weeks in a row, and the Blue Team, rather than being discouraged, is working their weight loss program with extra determination. This is classified as ____.
a. diffusion of treatment
b. compensatory rivalry
c. resentful demoralization
d. compensatory equalization
For classical conditioning to occur, it is important for the CS _______ the US.
a. to coincide with
b. to predict
c. to be similar to
d. to be presented after
Describe the similarities and differences between time-series and interrupted time-series designs.
What will be an ideal response?
This week, the Green Team has won some special exercise training. Somehow, a Blue Team member manages to observe the training session and shares the training with the rest of the Blue Team. This is classified as ____.
a. diffusion of treatment
b. compensatory rivalry
c. resentful demoralization
d. compensatory equalization
In the multiple baseline design, different behaviors or different people receive baseline periods of varying length
a. after the independent variable.
b. before the independent variable.
c. concurrently with the independent variable.
d. in a random fashion.
Describe the fundamental flaw that prevents a pre-post design from being a true experiment. (That is, why can't these designs produce an unambiguous cause-and-effect explanation?) Explain how the series of observations before the treatment help reduce this problem.
What will be an ideal response?
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