Ethics are Epic
Piper finds that she fails to replicate a study in which they found music helps people concentrate. She found nothing in her study significant, so she moved on to her next project rather than trying to publish her work; therefore contributing to this problem.
What is the 'file drawer problem'?
Karlos conducts a 2-group between design research study where he collected 50 participants, and begins to analyze his data. He fails the Shapiro-Wilk test when testing his assumptions. However, he is protected by this.
What is the 'Central Limit Theorem'?
Bobby uses this to predict how many 3-pointers his favorite basketball player will get based on minutes of play-time on the court.
What is 'simple linear regression'?
Marsha randomly gives children a blue or a green piece of paper to draw on. She then runs a test to predict whether or not they drew at least 1 cloud. Jamovi's output table shows the following variables and their p-values below. What effects are significant?
Gender (p = .567)
Color (p = .0463)
What is an effect of 'color'?
Self-esteem can explain why social support may indirectly affect happiness as it is a _________.
What is a 'mediator'?
Tony is an early career researcher (under 5 years since he got his PhD). He begins to publish his hypotheses on the OSF website because he was accused of creating them after he looked at his data (e.g. ________).
What is 'HARKing'?
Brea wants to perform an independent-samples t-test between groups 'Cheated' and 'Partner Cheated'. However, Brea forgets to require that only 1 partner from a relationship could take her study. So, now Brea has failed this assumption for her test.
What is 'independence'?
Half of Pavlov's dogs ate wet food, and the other half ate dry food. He wanted to measure their differences in amount of salivation, so he used this test.
What is an 'independent sample t-test'?
Levene's test of Homogeneity results in a p-value of .059. Interpret this.
What is 'No violation of HOV/Equal Variances'?
fMRI has much better ________ resolution compared to EEG.
What is 'spatial'?
Michaelangelo, Leondardo, Raphael, and Donatello find in their study that people (or turtles) that eat pepperoni pizza are happier. However, they fail to fill out or disclose a _____________ that details how they own a pizza parlor.
What is a 'Conflict of Interest'?
Leni performs a Shapiro-Wilk test, which results in p = .004. This means they violated this assumption.
What is 'Normality'?
Counselor Aspen wanted to determine if the county's teenagers had higher levels of depression compared to the national average. So, they randomly asked students between ages 13-17 across the county (with parental consent) to complete Beck's Depression Inventory. Counselor Aspen needs to perform this test on the data.
What is a 'one sample t-test'?
What is the problem with the graph drawn on the board?
What is 'y-axis truncation'?
This physiological method is not good to use on people with dark hair or skin as the lights gets absorbed more, and we cannot tell what is going on in the brain.
What is 'FNIRS or Functional-Near-Infrared Spectroscopy'?
Miller and Ollie are overall good dogs. However, Chelsea fails to talk about their bad behaviors (occasional counter-hopping, jumping on people, barking at neighbors walking by), and only discusses how they are 'good boys'. We call that ________ when referring to data.
What is 'Cherry-picking'?
Mila randomly assigns people to her 2-groups between subject. They then take a short-term memory test. Mila finds that 1 group has a ceiling effect (between 95-100% performance), while the other group performs more normally (60-80%). Mila runs a Levene's test to confirm she has violated this assumption.
What is 'Homogeneity of Variance' or 'Equal Variance'?
Michael has participants measure their heart rate both before and after his intervention (e.g. coloring). He then needs to use this test on his data.
What is a 'paired-samples t-test'?
Interpret Jamovi output below from a multiple linear regression. What effects are significant?
Age (p = .778)
Gender (p = .056)
Anxiety (p = .531)
Affirmations (p = .072)
What is 'no significant effects'?
Dr. Vogl is interested in fading affect bias (e.g. how negative emotion of memories fades faster over time than positive). He runs an experiment in which participants recall memories while electrodes are hooked up to their zygomaticus and corrugator muscles. The technique he uses is called ________.
What is 'Facial EMG or electromygography'?
When using TMS or rTMS, the researcher must be trained in ________ to be sure they are prepared in case their participant has a seizure.
What is 'CPR and First Aid'?
Professor Bell finds in her study a positive correlation between reaction time and performance (as reaction time increases, performance also increases). This is usually the opposite of what most literature finds. She sees a single data point that shows a very high performance and reaction time. She finds that Cook's distance is equal to 10.14 for this data point, meaning it is a/an ___________.
What is an 'outlier'?
Gigi designs her experiments to have 3 groups- no meditation, eyes-open meditation, and eyes-closed meditation. She has participants rate their stress levels afterwards. Gigi needs to run this test on her data.
What is a 'One-Way ANOVA'?
Kelly conducts 2 multiple linear regressions predicting anxiety. Model 1 uses depression and self-esteem scores, and has an AIC = 402. Model 2 uses depression, self-esteem, and childhood trauma scores, and has an AIC = 400. If Kelly is trying to pick the most parsimonious model, she should pick this one.
What is 'model 1'?
Social media can predict loneliness, however this relationship is stronger for adolescents compared to older adults. Here, Age is a _____________.
What is a 'Moderator'?