A Counseling Psychologist Developing a Technique to Reduce Procrastination Has

question 64

Multiple Choice

A counseling psychologist developing a technique to reduce procrastination has students time their procrastination for a week and uses this as a pretest measure of procrastination. Students then attend a workshop in which they are instructed to do a specific warm-up exercise for studying by focusing on a pleasant activity. Students again time their procrastination for a week, and the time from this second week is the posttest measure.
-If the psychologist wants to see if there is a change (increase or decrease) in procrastination by students who attended his workshop,the appropriate description of "Population 2" (the comparison population) would be people whose

• A)posttest scores will be lower than their pretest scores.
• B)difference scores will be 0 or greater than 0.
• C)difference scores will be 0.
• D)difference scores will be smaller than their pretest scores.

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