The group that receives the experimental treatment condition is called the: A. experimental group. B. control group. C. participant group. D. independent group. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: A
Date: October 9th, 2020
There are several ways in which confounding extraneous variables can be controlled. Which control technique is considered the best? A. matching B. random assignment C. counterbalancing D. selection ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: B
Date: October 9th, 2020
Investigators interested in the effects of nutrition on wound healing randomly assigned patients recovering from burn injuries to two groups. One group received protein supplements and the second group did not. The random assignment was used to: A. eliminate the systematic influence of any other variable. B. provide a control for earlier nutritional status. C. […]
Date: October 9th, 2020
Which of the following could be used for randomly assigning subject’s to groups in an experimental study? A. split halves B. even versus odd numbers C. use of table of random numbers D. Researcher decides which group will be best. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: C
Date: October 9th, 2020
True experiments are designed primarily to: A. identify relationships among intervening, independent, and dependent variables. B. discover new variables related to the research question. C. identify individual differences. D. determine causal connections. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: D
Date: October 9th, 2020
Control groups in experiments are used to: A. provide a comparison for the effect of the independent variable. B. test for an alternative causal connection. C. eliminate bias. D. provide external validity. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: A
Date: October 9th, 2020
The supplemental protein in the above example is a(an): A. dependent variable. B. independent variable. C. extraneous variable. D. intervening variable. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: B
Date: October 9th, 2020
In the above example, the investigators measured the amount of wound granulation, the number of wound infections, and the extent of the burn injury area. What finding would be most important to the researchers in relation to successful random assignment? A. The supplement groups had greater granulation than the control group. B. Both groups had […]
Date: October 9th, 2020
Phenomenology has its disciplinary origin in: A. philosophy. B. sociology. C. anthropology. D. women’s studies. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: A
Date: October 9th, 2020
The term used to describe preconceptions and feelings about a phenomena is called: A. coding. B. ethnography. C. bracketing. D. lived experience. ESSAYBID ANSWER ANS: C
Date: October 9th, 2020
