Laura Has Developed a New Treatment to Increase Spatial Ability

question 58

Multiple Choice

Laura has developed a new treatment to increase spatial ability. She randomly assigns students to either her intervention or a control condition. In the treatment condition students engage in working puzzles for twenty minutes a day for 10 days. Unfortunately, students don't like her intervention and refuse to do puzzles for all of the days. When she examines post-test means on the spatial ability measure, there are no differences between her treatment and the control condition.
-Which of the following demonstrates a threat to validity demonstrated in this study?

• A) Maturation
• B) Testing
• C) Instrumentation
• D) Mortality

Identify sleep disorders and their particular impact on older adults, incorporating understanding of changes in sleep-wake patterns.

Understand the defining characteristics and classifications within the primate family.

Recognize the evolutionary origins and migrations of Homo sapiens.

Describe the physical and genetic similarities and differences between humans and other primates.

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Definitions:

Self-Fulfilling

A prediction or expectation that indirectly or directly causes itself to become true.

Subjective Labels

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Research Domain Criteria Project

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Disorders

Represents a broad category of health conditions characterized by abnormal physical, mental, or behavioral patterns affecting one's functioning.