Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. The researcher asks subjects to sign a consent form which details the purpose of the study, the research procedures, and protections to the subject. This researcher is following the requirements for the __________.

principle of justice

principle of respect

principle of beneficence

principle of experimental control

2. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether or not test scores are useful in predicting future behavior or diagnosing a present condition.

parallel-forms

construct

criterion

content

3. Of the following, who is associated with the magnitude estimation question format?

Rosenthal

Orne

Buros

Stevens

4. The question below is an example of what kind of general question format?

Check the reasons you would use in selecting a course.
_____ required for major
_____ recommended by friends
_____ recommended by advisor
_____ fits in your schedule
_____ teacher is an easy grader
_____ sounded interesting
_____ other (please specify)

closed

combination

open-ended

forced choice

5. As compared to closed questions, open-ended questions are useful for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

when the response alternatives are too numerous to list.

in the early stages of research when the range of possible answers to questions is unknown.

when questions are scored by computer.

when researchers hope to learn new things from respondents.

6. The best source of information on the instruments that you could use in your study is

your professor

equipment catalogs

commercial software

earlier studies of the same research problem

7. __________ is to test validity as __________ is to inter-rater reliability.

correlation, r

F, t

r, kappa

t, correlation

8. Your application to the IRE should describe your plan for preserving the confidentiality of participants' data and records to avoid risks to them. Such a plan is necessary to uphold the Belmont Report's principle of:

beneficence.

justice.

respect.

complete disclosure.

9. Convenience sampling is to __________ as probability sampling is to __________.

campus subject pool, population

time-consuming, use of computer selection

random, non-random

recruiting volunteers, lack of the ability to generalize results with calculable error

10. Experimenter expectancies are a kind of __________.

demand characteristic

treatment effect

reactivity

control

11. Two students were observing the out-of-seat behavior of a hyperactive first-grader together. After their observation, they calculated Cohen's kappa. They were determining __________.

intra-observer reliability

alpha reliability

inter-observer reliability

construct validity

12. Which of the following is NOT a strategy for controlling demand characteristics?

debriefing

statistical control

holding events constant

randomization