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1. Standardization can improve the validity of both measures and manipulations.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
2. Making experimenters blind is an effective strategy for reducing random error.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
3. To reduce subject bias, a researcher might use a placebo treatment.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
4. Establishing that a manipulation is consistent with accepted definitions of a construct is most similar to building a case for the ____ validity of a measure.
-- Choose an answer --
a. Content validity
b. Internal consistency
5. Manipulation checks can be used to make a case for both the convergent and the discriminant validity of a treatment.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
6. Instructional manipulations are most vulnerable to
-- Choose an answer --
a. Random error
b. Subject biases
7. The most easily standardized type of manipulation is
-- Choose an answer --
a. Environmental
b. Instructional
8. Stooge manipulations are the type of manipulations that are least vulnerable to subject biases.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
9. If you are most concerned about experimenter biases, you should use a ___ manipulation.
-- Choose an answer --
a. Environmental
b. Instructional
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