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PSY301 After Midterm Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: If you are purchasing agent for a company that is considering buying a printer from
one of two companies, you might wish to set up an experiment to test how easy the
printers are to use. The appropriate experimental design would probably be a
ANS 🗹🗹: Single variable two-level experiment.
Q: A disadvantage of a single variable two-level experiment is that
ANS 🗹🗹: It is dangerous to guess the shape of a function from two points.
Q: One should be careful when extrapolating beyond the two levels used in some single
variable experiments because of
ANS 🗹🗹: Ceiling and floor effects
Q: In order to have a functional experiment (end up with a function) the minimum
experimental design you can use is a
ANS 🗹🗹: Single variable, multilevel design
Q: If your dependent variable is the number of items correctly recalled from a 10-item
word list, you could have potential problems with
ANS 🗹🗹: Both floor and ceiling effects
Q: If you want to test a hypothesis that as a particular independent variable increases it
will cause a particular dependent variable to increase, what would be the simplest design
that could be used?
ANS 🗹🗹: A single-variable, two-level
Q: The simplest experimental design for determining whether a curvilinear relationship
exists between the independent and dependent variables would be a
PSY301 After Midterm Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: If you are purchasing agent for a company that is considering buying a printer from
one of two companies, you might wish to set up an experiment to test how easy the
printers are to use. The appropriate experimental design would probably be a
ANS 🗹🗹: Single variable two-level experiment.
Q: A disadvantage of a single variable two-level experiment is that
ANS 🗹🗹: It is dangerous to guess the shape of a function from two points.
Q: One should be careful when extrapolating beyond the two levels used in some single
variable experiments because of
ANS 🗹🗹: Ceiling and floor effects
Q: In order to have a functional experiment (end up with a function) the minimum
experimental design you can use is a
ANS 🗹🗹: Single variable, multilevel design
Q: If your dependent variable is the number of items correctly recalled from a 10-item
word list, you could have potential problems with
ANS 🗹🗹: Both floor and ceiling effects
Q: If you want to test a hypothesis that as a particular independent variable increases it
will cause a particular dependent variable to increase, what would be the simplest design
that could be used?
ANS 🗹🗹: A single-variable, two-level
Q: The simplest experimental design for determining whether a curvilinear relationship
exists between the independent and dependent variables would be a
