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Chapter 10

1. The student teacher waited a week after being introduced to her subjects before conducting her observation in order to __________.
        
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. __________ is a strategy to reduce reactivity while __________ is a strategy to reduce observer bias.
        
4. The comparison group in a nonequivalent control group design is called nonequivalent because __________.
        
5. The use of a nonequivalent control group is an attempt to control for __________.
        
6. Goodall reported the following description of chimpanzee behavior: "Beethoven presents, pant-grunts to Satan; Satan, hair out, stamps on Beethoven, who screams and falls 3 meters to the ground." This description is:
        
7. __________ measures have zero reactivity.
        
8. Nonprobability sampling differs from probability sampling in that:
        
9. __________ data are data collected previously by people not directly associated with the current research.
        
10. The __________ design is to quasi-experimental designs as the AB design is to single-case designs.
        
11. A graduate student was observing the depressive behavior of a patient on the unit. She was kept unaware of when the patient started treatment. Such a control to reduce observer bias is called __________.
        
12. Which of the following methods of collecting data in a survey usually yields the lowest response rate(s)?