If DrBui Uses Random Assignment in Her Research, Then She Can

question 28

Multiple Choice

If Dr.Bui uses random assignment in her research, then she can make the reasonable assumption that:

• A) her experimental and control groups have similar characteristics prior to receiving the experimental treatment.
• B) any observed differences between her experimental and control groups are statistically significant.
• C) her findings can be generalized to populations she has not yet studied.
• D) the participants in her study are extremely similar to the people in the larger populations from which they were selected.

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list better than the information that follows.

Anterograde

Related to or denoting the inability to form new memories following a traumatic event or damage to the brain.

Encoding Specificity

The principle suggesting that memory is most effective when information available at encoding is also present at retrieval.

Related Categories

Groups or classes that share common characteristics or are associated in some way.