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Chapter 10

1. As compared to indirect measures of behavior, direct observations have __________.
        
2. Whenever a researcher schedules a treatment following high or low scores on the dependent measure or selects subjects based upon extreme scores he should be concerned with the threat to internal validity of __________.
        
3. Mail surveys are associated with __________ while face-to-face surveys are associated with __________.
        
4. The use of a nonequivalent control group is an attempt to control for __________.
        
5. Which of the following is NOT a factor that is known to influence error?
        
6. Hartup recorded the type and frequency of aggressive behaviors seen in preschool children. He employed a(n) __________.
        
7. Withholding potentially biasing information from an observer is called _________the observer.
        
8. The __________ design is to quasi-experimental designs as the AB design is to single-case designs.
        
9. Which of the following is NOT a serious threat to validity of the pretest-posttest one-group design, O X O, is ___________.
        
10. The accuracy of estimating population values from a sample is a function of all of the following EXCEPT:
        
11. A strategy for establishing is to have an observer rate the same behavior sequence at different times throughout the study.
        
12. Recording units of behavior such as licking, walking or crying is an example of using a(n) __________ description.