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HudsonKB16

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Cal wants to better understand the attitudes towards children who murder other children. He collects media coverage of recent incidents and uses a computer program to scan through and identify the occurrence of certain words and phrases. Cal is using ____.
 
  a. exclusion
  b. indexing
 c. exception identification
 d. significant change reporting

Question 2

Explain what counterbalancing is, how it is achieved, and which confound it helps to minimize.
 
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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Counterbalancing is a mechanism for controlling order effects either by including all orders of treatment presentations or by randomly determining the order for each participant. This controls for order effects, which occur when the order of the conditions has an effect on the dependent variable. Order effects are problematic for within-subjects designs.



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