This is a quasi-experimental design in which two groups are compared but the groups were not assigned under the control of the experimenter
a. static group comparison design c. pretest-posttest design
b. posttest only design d. factorial design
A
This is a description of the static group comparison design. The posttest only and pretest-posttest designs have only one group, and in the factorial design, the experimenter assigns the participants to conditions.
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Why is it important to make sure that different participant
groups are roughly equivalent in terms of personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender) before any independent variable is introduced? A) Because it is important to treat all research participants equally so that they feel that they are not being manipulated. B) Because research ethics forbid any experiment to take place when the participant groups are fundamentally different from each other. C) So that no major differences between the groups unduly bias the results of the experiment. D) Because it threatens the integrity of a within-group experimental design.