The Difference Between Repeated Measurements to Establish Test-Retest Reliability and Experiments

question 16

Multiple Choice

The difference between repeated measurements to establish test-retest reliability and experiments using repeated measures designs is that in experiments with repeated measures designs

• A) the reliability of measurement is not important.
• B) a correlation coefficient would be used to determine consistency across measurements.
• C) measurements occur only twice.
• D) measurements are compared for different conditions of an independent variable.

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