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Experimental Designs - Test Bank: Sekaran Research Methods For Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank

This document contains 17 multiple choice questions about experimental designs from a textbook chapter. It tests knowledge of key concepts in experimental design like internal validity, external validity, manipulation of independent variables, threats to validity from history effects, and quasi-experimental designs. Correct answers are identified with an asterisk. The questions cover topics like the definition of treatment effects, ways to control nuisance variables, differences between internal and external validity, and threats to validity for different experimental designs.

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Experimental Designs - Test Bank: Sekaran Research Methods For Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank

This document contains 17 multiple choice questions about experimental designs from a textbook chapter. It tests knowledge of key concepts in experimental design like internal validity, external validity, manipulation of independent variables, threats to validity from history effects, and quasi-experimental designs. Correct answers are identified with an asterisk. The questions cover topics like the definition of treatment effects, ways to control nuisance variables, differences between internal and external validity, and threats to validity for different experimental designs.

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Sekaran Research Methods for Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank 1

Chapter 10: Experimental Designs – Test Bank

1. Manipulation of independent variables in order to unravel causal relationships is


unacceptable from a scientific point of view.
a. T
*b.F

2. The manipulation of the independent variable is also known as the treatment, and the results
of the treatment are called treatment effects.
*a.T
b. F

3. One way of controlling “nuisance” variables is to match the various groups by picking the
confounding characteristics and deliberately spreading them across groups.
*a.T
b. F

4. External validity of lab experiments refers to the confidence we place in the cause-and-effect
relationship.
a. T
*b.F

5. A field study is an experiment done in the natural environment in which work goes on as
usual, but treatments are given to one or more groups.
a. T
*b.F

6. Internal validity refers to the extent of generalizability of the results of a causal study to other
settings.
a. T
*b.F

7. There is a trade-off between internal validity and external validity. If we want high internal
validity, we should be willing to settle for lower external validity and vice versa.
*a.T
b. F

8. Cause-and-effect inferences can be contaminated by the effects of the passage of time. Such
contamination effects are denoted history effects.
a. T
*b.F
Sekaran Research Methods for Business: A Skill-Building Approach, 7/e Test Bank 2

9. An interactive testing effect occurs when the prior observation (the pretest) affects the later
observation (the posttest).
a. T
*b.F

10. A time series design thus allows the researcher to assess the impact of a treatment over
time.
*a.T
b. F

11. Quasi-Experimental Designs expose an experimental group to a treatment and measure its
effects.
*a.T
b. F

12. A Quasi-Experimental Design measures true cause-and-effect relationships.


a. T
*b.F

13. History effects (the dropout of individuals from groups) is a problem for all experimental
designs.
a. T
*b.F

14. A Quasi-Experimental Design guarantees the maximum internal and external validity, ruling
out many other rival hypotheses.
a. T
*b.F

15. A key problem of time series is history: certain events or factors that have an impact on the
independent variable–dependent variable relationship might unexpectedly occur while the
experiment is in progress.
*a.T
b. F

16. Major threats to validity in a “pretest & posttest with one experimental group only” are:
*a. History, maturation, main testing, interactive testing, mortality.
b. Statistical regression, maturation, main testing, interactive testing, mortality.
c. Statistical regression, instrumentation, main testing, interactive testing, mortality.
d. History, instrumentation, main testing, interactive testing, mortality.

17. Biases that might affect the internal validity of experimental designs are often reduced by
enhancing the level of sophistication of the experimental design.
*a.T
b. F
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