Test Yourself
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1. If Treatment Group A scores significantly lower than Treatment Group B, we can conclude that Treatment A has a negative effect.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
2. A researcher would always prefer using a placebo-control group to no-treatment control group.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
3. An experiment that lacks adequate control groups will probably be attacked for its lack of
-- Choose an answer --
a. Construct validity
b. Internal validity
4. Using multiple levels of the independent variable may help improve your study´s
-- Choose an answer --
a. External validity
b. Internal validity
5. Confounding variables that are part of the treatment manipulation are a threat to your experiment´s
-- Choose an answer --
a. Construct validity
b. Internal validity
6. The multiple group experiment tends to have better internal validity than the simple experiment.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
7. Suppose you have an empty control group in your experiment. Hypothesis-guessing will probably be a bigger problem if your experiment is
-- Choose an answer --
a. A multilevel experiment
b. A simple experiment
8. To improve construct validity, you may want more than one control group.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
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