PNB 3RM3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Anagram, Random Assignment, Method Of Characteristics
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Within groups design- participants take part in every condition of the experiment. Matched group design- match participants on some characteristic before exposing them to any of the conditions of iv; good if you are still concerned that groups are unequal in some way. Pretest anagram test and match individuals based on scores; score top to lowest; if using 3 levels of. Iv take the top 3 assign each to one level, and then take the next three people and randomly assign them to the levels. Matching variable- can be dv or something related to it; if interested in anagrams can use anagram score or processing speed; can be problematic to use the exact dv because then people can figure out the hypothesis. Matched pairs design- means you have two levels of the iv (matched groups means three or more levels)