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Question 1
One issue with a pretest-posttest one group design is the effect of____. This occurs when participants change between the pre and post tests in ways that they were going to anyway because of growth or learning.
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instrumentation
maturation
regression to the mean
history
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Question 2
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One issue with a pretest-posttest one group design is the effect of ____. This occurs when the act of measuring the dependent variable during the pretest affects participants' responses on the posttest.
Group of answer choices
maturation
regression to the mean
testing
spontaneous remission
instrumentation
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Question 3
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To examine whether a nutrition course influences how many servings of fresh fruit people eat, you give incoming students a survey to measure how much fruit they eat. After students have completed the nutrition class, you survey the students again a second time to see if they are now eating more fresh fruit. Which type of design does this most closely match?
Group of answer choices
one-group pretest-posttest design
one-group posttest only design
pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design
interrupted time series design
posttest only nonequivalent groups design
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Question 4
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You want to know whether yoga for the hands helps people to have better handwriting. You have your research participants each give you a sample of handwriting before and after completing the study. Your research participants are two groups of yoga students, one at a recreation center, the other at a fitness club. Only the fitness club students do the hand exercises and the recreation center group does not. Which design does this most closely match?
Group of answer choices
one-group pretest posttest only design
interrupted time series design
pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design
one-group posttest only design
posttest only nonequivalent groups design
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Question 5
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In a class, students are required to take an exam each week. Scores are collected throughout the semester on a weekly basis. After the 6th week of the semester, students are given an intervention (a study skills workshop). Researchers then compare exam scores from across weeks 1-6 and across weeks 7-16, looking for any pattern of change. Which type of design does this most closely match?
Group of answer choices
one-group posttest only design
posttest only nonequivalent groups design
pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design
interrupted time series design
switching replication with treatment removal