If Your Experimental Treatment Produces a Permanent Effect on Your

question 6

Multiple Choice

If your experimental treatment produces a permanent effect on your subjects,you should use:

• A) a within-subjects design with counterbalancing
• B) a within-subjects design without counterbalancing
• C) a between-subjects design
• D) a mixed design

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Definitions:

External Validity

The degree to which an experimental design actually reflects the real-world issues it is supposed to address.

Experimental Design

A research method for testing hypotheses by systematically manipulating variables to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process.

Real-world Issues

Practical problems or challenges that occur in everyday life, outside of controlled experimental settings.

Independent Variables

Factors in an experiment that are intentionally changed or manipulated to observe their effect on dependent variables.