Scenario I Scenario I Is Based on and Presents Fabricated Data Consistent

question 8

Multiple Choice

Scenario I
Scenario I is based on and presents fabricated data consistent with the following study:
Tice, D. M., & Baumeister, R. F. (1997) . Longitudinal study of procrastination, performance, stress, and health: The costs and benefits of dawdling. Psychological Science, 8(6) , 454-458. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00460.x
Tice and Baumeister (1997) studied the relationship between procrastination and symptoms of physical illness in college students during an academic semester. Participants completed a questionnaire measuring procrastination. From this, they were classified as either procrastinators or nonprocrastinators. All participants also were instructed to record the number of negative health symptoms that they experienced during the first (early) and last (late) month of the semester. Figure 1.1 shows the major results of the study.
Figure 1.1
-(Scenario I) A defender of procrastination argues that while it is true that procrastinators suffer in terms of physical illness later in the semester, because this period of suffering is limited to a very brief period of time, overall they suffer less than nonprocrastinators. How could the study described in Scenario I be altered to test this claim?

• A)For both groups, all instances of adverse health symptoms should be recorded for the entire semester.
• B)The study should be replicated almost exactly with the exception that participants should be randomly assigned to groups.
• C)The study should consider only serious instances of physical illness, such as hospitalizations.
• D)The experiment described in Scenario I actually tested this claim and the results shown in Figure 1.1 clearly refute it.

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