Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. 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:
        
2. Which of the following is NOT a strategy for controlling demand characteristics?
        
3. The question "What products do you think the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate?" with response alternatives: prescription drugs, herbal medicine, cigarettes, vitamins,toothpaste, other (please specify), is an example of a(n):
        
4. Spearman-Brown is to __________ reliability as KR-20 is to __________ reliability.
        
5. Experimenter expectancies are a kind of __________.
        
6. One reason for debriefing in research that is NOT suggested in the dictionary definition is:
        
7. Researchers gain information on by checking the agreement in the ratings made by the same observer at different times.
        
8. Split-half is to __________ as parallel-forms and test-retest are to __________.
        
9. The question below is an example of what kind of general question format? What are some reasons for students having difficulty in a course?
        
10. The following closed question uses what format?

In answering the following question, assign a number that represents how important each of the following is in selecting an apartment. Give the number "1" the most important, "2" to the next most important, etc.
_____ proximity to campus
_____ safety of the neighborhood
_____ cost of rent
_____ size
_____ attractiveness
        
11. The mentally retarded child's behavior improved as soon as the researcher began to pay him individual attention. This is an example of __________.
        
12. Of the following, who is associated with the magnitude estimation question format?