Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. A consent form describing the study's procedures, benefits, and risks, if any, as completely as possible, with no coercion of any sort, no threats of retaliation or loss for failure to participate,and no remuneration out of proportion to the requirements of the study would satisfy the Belmont Report's principle of:

complete disclosure.

beneficence.

justice.

respect.

2. Probability sampling is to ___________ as convenience sampling is to __________.

campus subject pool, population

time-consuming, use of computer selection

ease in recruitment, labor-intensive

surveys, experimentation

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 __________ is to commercial tests as __________ is to unpublished tests.

Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Educational Testing Service

Psychological Corporation, Tests in Print

The Mental Measurements Yearbook, Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures

Tests in Print, Test Critiques

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

debriefing

statistical control

holding events constant

randomization

5. 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

construct validity

inter-observer reliability

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

commercial software

earlier studies of the same research problem

equipment catalogs

your professor

7. 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.

content

test-retest

split-half

parallel-forms

8. 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

9. Split-half is to __________ as parallel-forms and test-retest are to __________.

correlation, t test

validity, reliability

reliability, validity

one administration, two administrations

10. The following closed question uses what format?
I have many friends to help me when I am in need. ______ Yes ______ No

rank order

agree-disagree

Likert-type rating scale

magnitude estimation

11. All of the following are strategies for controlling for the effects of suggestion and for participant reactivity EXCEPT:

"blinding" experimenters, observers, and participants as to subjects' experimental conditions.

randomly assigning subjects to groups.

holding demand characteristics constant for all conditions.

randomly assigning observers and experimenters to the conditions of the study.

12. Survey researchers typically use _________ sampling in recruiting participants for their studies.

representative

subjective

convenience

probability