Quiz

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Quiz 4 (8 points)

• 1) Dr. Jones is interested in studying the
  relationship between males and females and their
  liking for action flicks versus chick flicks. Dr.
  Jones runs a study and then graphs his results.
  In the following graph, are there any main
  effects or interactions?
• 2) Briefly describe the results of Dr. Joness
  study.

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Quiz 4, cont.

• 3) Now Dr. Jones is interested in determining
  whether sensitivity training might increase
  peoples liking for chick flicks. To study this,
  he first measures peoples liking for chick
  flicks, then has all of his Ps go through
  sensitivity training, and then again measures
  their liking for chick flicks. What type of
  design is Dr. Jones using?
• a) Time series design
• b) One-group posttest-only
• c) Nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest
  
• d) One-group pretest-posttest (1 point)

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• 4) A clinical psychologist is interested in
  observing how an individual who has arachnophobia
  (i.e., is afraid of spiders) responds to
  desensitization training. If this psychologist
  wants to use a single-case research design, but
  doesnt want to withdraw the treatment after
  its been implemented, which design should she
  use?
• Multiple-baseline design (1 point)

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Quiz 4, cont.

• 5) Which measure of central tendency should you
  use if your data has the following
  characteristics
• - Extreme scores
• - Ordinal data
• The median (1 point)

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Quiz 4, cont.

• 6) If you could go anywhere in the world, where
  would you go? ?
• (1 point)