A Contingency Table Helps to Display

question 50

Multiple Choice

A contingency table helps to display

• A) how categories within variables are related.
• B) whether the variables are accurate representations of reality.
• C) whether relationships are related causally.
• D) whether the variables are mutually exclusive.
• E) the extent to which variables are valid.

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Definitions:

Double-blind

An experimental procedure in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias in research results.

Case History

A detailed narrative record or report of a person's background, medical history, or behavioral patterns.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the role of reinforcement in shaping behavior.

Shaping

Is a method in behavioral psychology used to gradually teach a new behavior through reinforcement of successive approximations to the desired behavior.