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1. If you have not established that changes in the treatment are accompanied by changes in behavior, you have not established
-- Choose an answer --
a. Covariation
b. Temporal precedence
2. Research that does not manipulate a treatment often fails to establish
-- Choose an answer --
a. Covariation
b. Temporal precedence
3. Comparing conditions´ scores on the dependent measure helps
-- Choose an answer --
a. Control for spuriousness
b. Establish covariation
4. Randomized experiments and single-n experiments are most different in terms of how they
-- Choose an answer --
a. Control for spuriousness
b. Establish temporal precedence
5. A stable baseline would be easiest to establish in a
-- Choose an answer --
a. Field experiment
b. Skinner box
6. The A-B design is vulnerable to both testing and maturation
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
7. The A-B-A design is superior to the A-B design because it is less vulnerable to
-- Choose an answer --
a. Maturation and testing
b. Mortality and regression
8. In A-B-A designs, the behavior
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a. Returns to baseline if the treatment has an effect
b. May not return to baseline because of maturation, testing, and carryover effects
9. Expanding the A-B-A design to an A-B-A-B-A-B design would
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a. Be a bad idea because it would increase carryover effects
b. Be a good idea because it would reduce the chances that apparent treatment effects were due to maturation or practice
10. Which of the following is a more direct extension of the A-B-A design?
-- Choose an answer --
a. Multiple-baseline designs
b. Psychophysical designs
11. Using many different levels of treatment may
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a. Harm internal validity by increasing the risks of carryover effects
b. Boost construct validity by reducing the risk of sensitization
12. Using placebo treatments has no effect on internal validity but boosts construct validity.
-- Choose an answer --
a. True
b. False
13. The most difficult case to make is for the single-n study´s
-- Choose an answer --
a. External validity
b. Internal validity
14. It might be argued that people tend to overestimate the single-n design´s ___ validity and underestimate its ____ validity.
-- Choose an answer --
a. Construct, internal
b. Internal, external
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