Researchers' Assignment of Participants to Groups by Chance in Order

question 12

Multiple Choice

Researchers' assignment of participants to groups by chance in order to reduce the likelihood that an experiment's results will be due to preexisting differences between groups is known as _____ assignment.

• A)correlative
• B)meta-analytical
• C)random
• D)replicative

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Definitions:

Spatial Perspective Taking

The cognitive ability to understand and interpret the spatial relations between objects from different viewpoints.

Mental Modules

Hypothesized innate mental faculties that receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce corresponding information about the world.

Precausal Reasoning

A type of logic in young children characterized by a misunderstanding of cause and effect relationships.

Egocentrism

In Piaget’s terms, the tendency to “center on oneself”—that is, to consider the world entirely in terms of one’s own point of view.