An Experimenter Decided to Test the Effects of a New

question 7

Multiple Choice

An experimenter decided to test the effects of a new training program by comparing the motivation of twenty employees who had participated in the program against an equivalent group of twenty employees who had not gone through any training at all. The employees were measured when they had completed the program and it was found that those who had gone through the program had much greater on-the-job motivation than those who had not. It was concluded that the difference in motivation was due to the content of the training program. The research design is

• A) comparison-group before-after.
• B) single-group before-after.
• C) comparison-group.
• D) experimental.

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Definitions:

Resource Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a resource and the quantity of that resource demanded by firms.

Imperfectly Competitive

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Purely Competitive

A market scenario where there are many buyers and sellers, each has no influence over the price of products, leading to perfect competition.

Marginal Resource Cost

The additional cost incurred by producing one more unit of a product or service, especially in terms of the resources used in its production.