Exam 5: Alternatives to Experimentation: Correlational and Quasi-Experimental Designs

Quasi-Experimental Designs Which quasi-experimental design would you use to compare time spent this Month in chat rooms by college freshmen and seniors?

Correlational Designs Which statistic would a researcher use when measuring the relationships Among age, television viewing, and vocabulary?

Causal Modeling All of these are quasi-experimental designs except

Quasi-Experimental Designs If a researcher studies the effectiveness of anti-drug commercials by Comparing the self-reported frequency of drug use among teens for a 6- Month period before and after the commercials aired, she is using a(n) ____ design.

Correlational Designs The ____ problem prevents us from drawing causal conclusions because Two correlated variables affect each other.

Quasi-Experimental Designs At the start of the semester, the university installed computer workstations in One General Psychology classroom and traditional desks and an LCD Projector in another.At the end of the semester, researchers compared Student satisfaction with their classrooms.Which quasi-experimental design Did they use?

Causal Modeling Researchers can use beta weights in ____ to construct possible causal Sequences for related behaviors.

Causal Modeling Batson and colleagues (2002) constructed a path analysis model for helping Using

Quasi-Experimental Designs Choose the quasi-experimental design in which subjects of different ages are measured at the same time to compare their attitudes.

Introduction Which best describes quasi-experiments?

Introduction Which is a critical difference between quasi-experimental and experimental Designs?

Correlational Designs If a survey found a correlation of r = - .03 between income level and Happiness, this would suggest that

Causal Modeling In ____ studies, experimenters systematically examine selected traits, Events, or behaviors, without actually manipulating them.