Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. Recruiting indigent people for research on the effects of sensory deprivation with the inducement of a week's food and lodging would violate the Belmont Report's principle of:

justice.

beneficence.

respect.

informed consent.

2. The GRE is used as a predictor of performance in graduate schools and so is frequently a requirement for admission to graduate programs. This use of the GRE is based on its __________.

criterion validity

content validity

split-half reliability

test-retest validity

3. The general education committee at a regional university is concerned about scientific literacy in its students. They have developed a multi-disciplinary course which they hope will enhance students' knowledge about science. As part of the course, they have developed a new test of scientific literacy. They want to know whether their test is a good measure of scientific knowledge and so will measure __________.

content validity

criterion validity

alpha reliability

parallel-forms reliability

4. Random assignment of subjects is to __________ as observing subjects in naturally occurring conditions is to __________.

experiment, correlational study

convenience sampling, randomization

probability sampling, convenience sampling

randomized blocks design, completely randomized design

5. Spearman-Brown is to __________ reliability as KR-20 is to __________ reliability.

split-half, alpha

inter-observer, intra-observer

parallel-forms, test-retest

alpha, parallel-forms

6. Inter-observer reliability is to __________ as intra-observer reliability is to __________.

experiment, observation

correlation, F-test

agreement in ratings at different times, agreement in behavior classification

between, within

7. 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 experimental control

principle of justice

principle of beneficence

principle of respect

8. The following closed question offers what type of format?

I am a person of worth
a = Strongly Disagree; b = Disagree; c = Agree; d = Strongly Agree

Likert-type rating scale

agree-disagree

magnitude estimation

rank order

9. When reliability is determined by dividing the items on a test into two halves and correlating participants' scores on these parts, the result is known as the test's reliability.

split-half

parallel-forms

test-retest

content

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

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

when the response alternatives are too numerous to list.

when questions are scored by computer.

when researchers hope to learn new things from respondents.

11. __________ is to commercial tests as __________ is to unpublished tests.

The Mental Measurements Yearbook, Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures

Tests in Print, Test Critiques

Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Educational Testing Service

Psychological Corporation, Tests in Print

12. Studies on __________ investigate whether tests are good measures of the psychological concepts their authors claim they measure.

criterion validity

content validity

construct validity

concept validity