If a Psychologist Wanted to Test the Effectiveness of a Behavioural

question 17

Multiple Choice

If a psychologist wanted to test the effectiveness of a behavioural intervention for test anxiety, she would most likely choose what sort of assessment?

• A) Projective test
• B) Unstructured interview
• C) Open-ended-sentence completion test
• D) Test for the specific symptoms

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Definitions:

Explanatory Variable

A variable in a statistical model that is used to explain variations in the dependent variable.

Error Sum Of Squares

A measure in statistics of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Standard Error

A measure of the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by quantifying the variability of the sampling distribution.

Coefficient Of Determination

A measure that represents the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).