Select Questions

Chapter 12

1. Participants' reactions to the special treatment and attention they receive as research participants is known as:
        
2. Random assignment of subjects is to __________ as observing subjects in naturally occurring conditions is to __________.
        
3. A personality inventory asks respondents to rate the extent to which they see themselves as good listeners, from "never or almost never true" to "always or almost always true." This type of item is an example of:
        
4. Inter-observer reliability is to __________ as intra-observer reliability is to __________.
        
5. The best source of information on the instruments that you could use in your study is
        
6. 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.
        
7. Martin Orne's term for cues that suggest hypotheses to participants in research is:
        
8. __________ is to reliability as __________ is to validity.
        
9. Studies on __________ validity investigate whether or not test scores are useful in predicting future behavior or diagnosing a present condition.
        
10. 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:
        
11. The following closed question uses what format?
I have many friends to help me when I am in need. ______ Yes ______ No
        
12. 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