A professor is interested in whether one's confidence influences one's self-esteem or whether it is one's self-esteem that influences one's self-confidence.
He measures his students' levels of self-esteem and confidence and learns that they are positively correlated. One year later the professor reassesses the students' self-esteem and confidence levels. He finds that there is a stronger correlation between one's confidence at time one and one's self-esteem one year later than the correlation between one's self-esteem at time one and one's confidence level one year later. Which type of quasi-experimental design is the professor employing?
a. a single-case experimental design
b. a time-series design
c. a cross-lagged panel design
d. nonequivalent groups design
Question 2
The observations of an individual's behavior before the experimental treatment in a single-case experimental design is referred to as a(n)
a. pretest.
b. behavioral baseline.
c. experimental treatment.
d. cohort
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