Counseling Test - Research
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- The most valuable type of research is
- The experiment used to discover cause-and-effect-relationships.
- Experiments emphasize parsimony which means
- Interpreting results in the simplest way
- Occams Razor suggests that experimenters
- interpret results in the simplest manner
- A counselor educator is running an experiment to test a form or counseling -- but one client is seeing Gestalt therapist. The experiment
- Is confounded/flawed
- Non-directive is to person-centered as
- parsimony is to Occam's Razor.
- An experiment is said to be confounded when
- undesirable variables are not kept out of the experiment
- terminology IV and DV
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independent variable
depentent variable - Hypothesis: biofeedback reduces anxiety and improves avg score on written exams. The IV will be and the DV will be
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biofeedback
board exam score - Experimenters should always abide by code of ethics. The variable you manipulate/control in an experiment is the
- IV or independent variable
- In order for the prof to conduct exp re hypot about biofeedback & exam scores he will need
- Control group and experimental group
- Type I and Type II errors are called _____ and _____ respectively.
- alpha; beta
- A Type I error occurs when
- you reject null when it is true
- A Type II error
- is called a beta error and means you accept null when it is false.
- Assume the experiment in question 8 is conducted. The results indicate that the biofeedback helped raise written board exam scores but in reality this is not the case. The researcher has made a
- Type I error
- A counselor educator decides to increase the sample size in her experiment. This will
- reduce Type I and Type II errors.