In an Experiment Examining Whether a Specific Type of Intervention

question 6

Multiple Choice

In an experiment examining whether a specific type of intervention improves the psychological adjustment of shy children, the independent variable would be the

• A) type of intervention.
• B) number of children in the subject pool who are shy.
• C) number of shy children who benefit from the intervention.
• D) measure of psychological adjustment.

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Definitions:

Opposite Directions

A term indicating movements or trends that are diametrically contrary to each other in a physical or metaphorical sense.

Upward Sloping

A term often used to describe a line on a graph that shows an increase in a variable as another variable increases, indicative of a direct relationship.

Positively Related

A term describing the relationship between two variables where they move in the same direction; when one increases, the other also increases, and vice versa.

Omitted Variable Bias

Omitted Variable Bias occurs in statistical models when a relevant variable is left out of the model, potentially leading to incorrect conclusions about the relationship between the variables of interest.