Exam 12: D: Mixed Design: Which Therapy Is Best for Treating Eating Disorders
How does a researcher determine which variables to manipulate in a research study?
The researcher develops a research question related to whether one variable (the independent variable)has an effect on another variable (the dependent variable).The research manipulates the independent variable and measures the dependent variable.
What would be an example of a single-subject A-B-A design?
A behavioral intervention for anxiety may fit an A-B-A design.The child participant would have his or her anxiety measured prior to the intervention and then a behavioral intervention would be implemented to reduce or cope with anxiety symptoms.The anxiety intervention would then be removed and the child's anxiety levels would be reassessed again to determine any significant reduction.
What types of research designs are within-subject designs?
There are several different research designs that are commonly used in within-subjects research.The pretest-posttest design and the repeated measure design are within-subject research designs.The mixed design is a combination of between-subject and within-subject designs.
What are some potential ethical issues in using a waiting-list control group?
How are the experimenter-expectancy effect and the double-blind procedure related?
What statistical analysis would you conduct if you had three independent variables: one is a between-subjects variable and the other two are within-subjects variables?
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