Exam 8: Experience Carefully Exploited: Quasi-Experimental Research Designs

What type of design did Johnson,Richeson,and Finkel (2011)use in their study on the effect of being a poor or middle class student at Northwestern University?

The difference between natural experiments and person-by-treatment quasi-experiments is that natural experiments:

Ma______ are also quasi-experiments.

18_____design uses dependent measures taken at multiple points in time to establish (a)the equivalence of two or more groups prior to a quasi-manipulation.Doing so allows researchers to see the precise point at which the two groups may begin to differ.

Which kind of quasi-experiment makes use of at least one measured variable and at least one experimentally manipulated variable?

Pelham,Mirenberg,and Jones (2002)used archival records to document that the name letter effect seems to influence:

According to the text,the quasi-experimental design used most frequently by clinical and social psychologists is the:

In many patched-up designs,researchers systematically increase the number ________ in a quasi-experimental design.

The one-group pretest-post design is an improvement over a one-group design because it provides the researcher with:

Baumeister and Steinhilber's (1984)study of the "home-field disadvantage" in World Series baseball games is a good example of:

An advantage of using extreme groups in quasi-experiments is that this approach:

Which is NOT an advantage that quasi-experiments have over laboratory experiments?

T_______ approach selects participants based on whether they score in the top or the bottom half of a distribution on an individual-difference measure.

According to the text,the quasi-experiment proposed by Daniel to the Babylonian King's official is a good example of a:

The groups of participants in a typical pretest-posttest design with nonequivalent groups are usually created by means of:

Dr.Spock wants to study whether having schizophrenia leads to an increase in risky health behaviors.Which would be the most appropriate control group to use for comparison?

Prescreening is frequently used by researchers to:

Which of the following is NOT true of quasi-experiments?

Dr.Park identified 20 restrictive eaters (people who constantly monitor and limit their caloric intake)and 20 matched control participants.She then manipulated whether each group of participants had or had not just consumed a high calorie milkshake prior to taking part in a "taste test" of chocolate chip cookies.She found that whereas the control participants ate fewer cookies than usual after having just consumed the shake,the restrictive eaters actually ate more.Dr.Park's study is:

Patching is a research method in which a researcher adds new conditions to a quasi-experiment to help: