Partial counterbalancing for four treatments would require four groups of participants.
a. True
b. False
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When the New York City test used in the recruitment of firefighters was questioned because it appeared to disproportionately exclude African Americans and Hispanics from the fire service, the test's _______________ validity was at issue.
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The _____ of an auditory stimulus is analogous to its pitch and the _____ of the stimulus refers to its loudness.
a. waveform; intensity
b. timbre; frequency
c. frequency; timbre
d. frequency; intensity
Using a Latin square to counterbalance a within-subjects experiment ensures that every possible ordering of treatment conditions is used.
a. True
b. False
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The _______________ of a test is very often studied by having experts review the items in a test to be sure they cover the domain comprehensively.
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Weiskrantz used the term, Type I Blindsight to
a. describe a blind person's heightened sense of touch.
b. describe visual capacity in a blind field when there is no acknowledgement of perceptive awareness.
c. describe visual capacity in a blind field when there is acknowledgement of perceptive awareness.
d. describe a blind person's feeling that a stimulus has occurred.
The larger the number of treatment conditions, the easier it is to completely counterbalance them.
a. True
b. False
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In the Thurstone method, judges rate how favorable statements are to the construct of _______________.
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Closely related to the direct/indirect issue is
a. the relative and innate factors.
b. the distinction between bottom up and top down processing.
c. the role of converging operations in understanding perception.
d. reliability of verbal reports of perceptual phenomena.
Just as random assignment is routinely used to protect the internal validity of between-subjects research, counterbalancing is routinely used to protect the internal validity of within-subjects research.
a. True
b. False
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