Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frederick J Gravetter, Lori-Ann B. Forzano
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 1E
In addition to the key words, you should also be able to define the following terms:
Individual differences
Differential effects
History
Instrumentation
Order effects
Maturation
Statistical regression
Interrupted time-series designs
Single-case, or single-subject designs
Participant attrition, or participant mortality
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To determine
The given terms.
Answer to Problem 1E
Solution:
The definitions of the terms are stated below.
Explanation of Solution
- Individual differences: These are personal characteristics that differ from one participant to another.
- Differential effects: The Differential Outcomes Effect is a theory in Behaviorism, a branch of psychology that shows that a positive effect on accuracy occurs in discrimination learning between different stimuli when unique rewards are paired with each individual stimulus.
- History: The term history, refers to the environmental events other than the treatment that changes over time and may affect the scores in one treatment differently than in another treatment.
- Instrumentation: Instrumentation refers to changes in a measuring instrument that occur over time.
- Order effects: When an individual is tested in a series of treatment conditions, participation in one treatment may have an influence on the participants' scores in the treatments that follow and it is referred as order effects.
- Maturation: Any systematic changes in participant's physiology or psychology that occur during a research study and affect the participants' scores are referred to as maturation.
- Statistical regression: This refers to the tendency for extreme scores on any measurements to move towards the mean when the measurement procedure is repeated.
- Interrupted time-series designs: Interrupted time series is a special type of time series where treatment/intervention occurred at a specific point and the series is broken up by the introduction of the intervention.
- Single-case or single-subject designs: In the design of experiments, single-subject design or single-case research design is a research design most often used in the applied fields of psychology, education, and human behavior in which the subject serves as his/her own control, rather than using another individual/group.
- Participant attrition or participant mortality: Participants frequently drop out of experiments whilst they are taking place/before they finish; something that is known as participant mortality or participant attrition.
Conclusion:
The terms defined above are needed to properly understand any statistical experiment.
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