PSY 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pain Scale, Convenience Sampling, Joule

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 250
• Professor: Boomer Joseph

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Example: do you believe that the republicans are destroying. Example: do you think that facebook is a useful tool, and do you use it to communicate your feelings? (cid:499) our children"s future? (cid:499) (cid:523)no emotional elicits(cid:524) Example: (cid:498)should employees not be required to wash their hands after using the restroom? (cid:499) Several items in a row that require the same kind of response. Posttest only: between subjects design, easier to do, access to many people, a short period of time, comparing groups of people (experimental, control, lillard and peterson, hypothetical smoking cessation experiment. Randomly assigned smokers to one of two groups: treatment or no treatment. After treatment, asked each participant if they want to have a cigarette. Therefore, the difference in number of people who want a cigarette between the groups should be due to the difference between the groups" treatments. Pretest-posttest: stronger construct validity, lillard and peterson. Parents completed a questionnaire before the experiment.