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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Further analysis of delay discounting: Sequential effects on participant answers using the 27-item Monetary Choice Questionnaire

Schenk, Merritt J. 01 January 2016 (has links)
Systematic manipulations of the order in which questions are presented in hypothetical discounting tasks have shown that individual responses vary as a result of these manipulations. For example, Robles and Vargas (2007, 2008) and Robles, Vargas, and Bejarano (2009) demonstrated that individual discounting rates systematically change if questions are presented in a random, ascending, or descending order. The purpose of this study was to examine if specific sequential manipulations affected individual k values when using the Kirby, Petry, and Bickel (1999) 27-item Monetary Choice Questionnaire (MCQ). In a single session, participants (undergraduate students, N = 80), answered two MCQs. One of the MCQs was the standard Kirby et al. (1999) MCQ and the other was the MCQ with the question sequence altered systematically. Within-subject results suggest that individual k values are consistent when comparing k values from the two MCQs completed by each individual. In most cases, individual k values between MCQs did not vary substantially. Additionally, there was a statistically significant correlation between both MCQ administrations for each group. Results from this study indicate that k values obtained using the MCQ are reliable when question sequence is altered.

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