In General,designs That Use Pretraining and Posttraining Measures of Outcomes

question 69

True/False

In general,designs that use pretraining and posttraining measures of outcomes and include a comparison group reduce the risk that factors other than training itself are responsible for the evaluation results.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies unconsciously used to protect oneself from anxiety by denying and distorting reality.

Reaction Formation

Psychological defense mechanism in which a person forms an opposite emotional or behavioral reaction to the way he or she really feels to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

External Locus of Control

A belief that one's successes or failures result from external factors beyond one's control.