Instead of Reading or Scanning Data from a Source Document

question 196

Multiple Choice

Instead of reading or scanning data from a source document, which of the following kinds of devices obtain data directly at the location where the transaction or event takes place?

• A)transmission
• B)data collection
• C)scanning
• D)recognition

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Definitions:

Masked Design

An experiment in which participants do not know whether they are in the experimental or the control condition. Previously called a blind design.

Researcher's Expectations

The preconceived notions or hypotheses that a researcher may have before conducting an experiment or study.

Random-Assignment Design

A research method used to evenly distribute participants across various groups by chance, minimizing pre-existing differences between those groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group of subjects that does not receive the treatment being tested, used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment on the experimental group.