CPCE Study Guide 7 question n answers graded A+

CPCE Study Guide 7 The most valuable type of research is - correct answer the experiment, used to discover cause-and-effect relationships Experiments emphasize parsimony, which means - correct answer interpreting the results in the simplest way. Parsimonious literally means a tendency to be miserly and not overspend. Occam's Razor suggests that experimenters - correct answer interpret the results in the simplest manner. Exams often refer to parsimony as Occam's Razor, the principle of economy, or Lloyd Morgan's 1894 Canon (canon in this sense means "law" A counselor educator is running an experiment to test a new form of counseling. Unbeknownst to the experimenter one of the clients in the study is secretly seeing a gestalt therapist. This experiment - correct answer is confounded/flawed. Nondirective is to person-centered as - correct answer parsimony is to Occam's Razor An experiment is said to be confounded when - correct answer undesirable variables are not kept out of the experiment. Your exam could refer to this as a contaminating variable. In experimental terminology IV stands for _______ and DV stands for _______. - correct answer independent variable; dependent variable. A professor of counselor education hypothesized that biofeed- back training could reduce anxiety and improve the average score on written board exams. If this professor decides to con- duct a formal experiment the IV will be the _______, and the DV will be the _______. - correct answer biofeedback; board exam score Okay, time to plug in your memory devices. "I manipulate...or I experiment with, well, the biofeedback training, of course." The "I" statement here gives you your "IV." For your "DV" (remember DV begins with a "D" like "data") your data is provided by the board exam score. Experimenters should always abide by a code of ethics. The vari- able you manipulate/control in an experiment is the - correct answer IV or independent variable. "I am the researcher so I manipu- late or experiment with the IV." In order for the professor of counselor education (see question 708) to conduct an experiment regarding his hypothesis he will need a(n) _______ and a(n) _______. - correct answer control group; experimental group. The control group does not receive the IV. The experimental group receives the IV. In order for the professor of counselor education to conduct the experiment suggested in question 708 the experimental group would need to receive - correct answer The biofeedback training (manipulated IV) An organismic variable is one the re- searcher cannot control yet exists such as height, weight, or gen- der. Hypothesis testing is most closely related to the work of - correct answer R. A. Fisher. A hypothesis is a statement which can be tested regarding the relationship of the IV and the DV. The null hypothesis suggests that there will not be a significant difference between the experimental group which received the IV and the control group which did not. Thus, if the experiment in question 708