You are in Research Methods class and planning a study. You decide to test the hypothesis that basketball players who are told what is wrong with their form after each of 40 jump shots will improve more than if they were told what was right about their form. The problem is that you have to decide whether to 1. have each participant practice 40 jump shots with positive feedback and then 40 jump shots with negative feedback. OR 2. have one group get positive feedback and a second group get negative feedback. What is wrong with the first solution? How could you fix it? Why would it be a good idea to fix it and use that design rather than the second solution?

You are in Research Methods class and planning a study. You decide to test the hypothesis that basketball players who are told what is wrong with their form after each of 40 jump shots will improve more than if they were told what was right about their form. The problem is that you have to decide whether to 1. have each participant practice 40 jump shots with positive feedback and then 40 jump shots with negative feedback. OR 2. have one group get positive feedback and a second group get negative feedback. What is wrong with the first solution? How could you fix it? Why would it be a good idea to fix it and use that design rather than the second solution?

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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