Exam 7: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Crime and Justice Research

An experimental design that has random assignment, a control group, and a pretest and posttest for each group is called _______________.

Preexperimental designs is/are ___________________.

An experimental design used to examine whether the order of sequence in which subjects receive multiple versions of the treatment has an effect is called _____.

Experimental research is fairly common now in criminal justice studies.

A two-group posttest-only design is ________________.

This is an experimental design used to examine whether the order of sequence in which subjects receive multiple versions of the treatment has an effect:

The control group is the group that does not get the treatment in experimental research.

A threat to internal validity that occurs when the treatment "spills over" from the experimental group and control group subjects modify their behavior because they learn of the treatment is called ___________.

A type of reactivity and threat to internal validity due to the experimenter indirectly making subjects aware of the hypothesis or desired results.

The act of randomly assigning research subjects to different groups is the defining feature of a true experiment.

A one shot case study design is/are ____________________.

The group that does not get the treatment in experimental research is called the ______.

The ____________ is a reactivity effect name after a famous case in which subjects responded to the fact that they were in an experiment more than to the treatment.

Discuss why experiments are considered the gold standard of quantitative research?

A factorial design is ____________________.

To make a causal inference from an experiment, we must meet the same requirements that are needed for any causal relationship: (1) cause must precede effect, (2) there must be an association between cause and effect; and (3) the researcher must eliminate plausible alternatives.

Internal validity is the ability to generalize findings beyond a specific study.

A type of reactivity and threat to internal validity due to the experimenter indirectly making subjects aware of the hypothesis or desired results is called __________.

Crime control occurs whenever a child is cared for in a loving environment, successfully learns to empathize and treat others with respect, and enters into an adult community where people care about each other's well-being.

Statistical regression is a problem of extreme values or a tendency for random errors to move group results toward the average.