Researchers Assess the Baseline Performance of People with Respect to a Given

question 118

Multiple Choice

Researchers assess the baseline performance of people with respect to a given behaviour so they can identify what happens to behaviour when they manipulate a variable. The use of baseline groups and groups that experience a manipulation of a variable is characteristic of:

• A) correlational studies
• B) longitudinal research
• C) naturalistic observation
• D) experimental research

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Definitions:

Assignment Statement

Is the act of allocating a particular value to a variable during program execution.

Accumulating Statement

A statement in programming that updates the value of a variable by adding a new value to it.

Postfix Decrement

Postfix Decrement is an operator in programming that decreases the value of a variable by one, after the current operation completes.

Prefix Decrement

Prefix decrement is an operator that decreases the value of a variable by one before the variable is used in an expression.