Author Question: Which statement best characterizes a between-subjects experimental design? a. Participants are ... (Read 85 times)

xclash · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Which statement best characterizes a between-subjects experimental design?

a. Participants are randomly selected from two different populations.
b. Each participant is assigned to one condition of the experiment.
c. Each participant is assigned to every condition of the experiment.
d. Participants are assigned to a random number of conditions.

Question 2

Leslie is studying test anxiety and administers a test to his research participants that asks them to rate their anxiety in various situations on a scale of 0 (no anxiety) to 10 (the worst anxiety imaginable). He then uses the scores to divide his participants into high, medium, and low anxiety groups. Leslie's high-medium-low scale is best described as an example of a(n) ____ scale.

a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio