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Ethics in Research
Measurement in Research
100

Accepting the information in a professor's lecture without considering the credibility of the information exemplifies a belief in _____. This is an example of illogical reasoning.

What is authority? (Critical agreement with authority)

100

A research question stated in a way that can be tested; a prediction

What is a hypothesis?

100

Events or qualities that can assume more than one value; these are created when we operationalize concepts

What is a variable?

100

Guide behaviors and decisions through range of concerns, dilemmas, conflicts that arise over proper way to conduct a study

What is research ethics/Belmont Report?

100
Measurement scale that lacks numeric properties
What is nominal?
200

To produce valid and objective knowledge

What is the goal of scientific research?

200

Scientific principle that it must be possible to make an observation that would show the hypothesis or theory is false and can be rejected; a requirement of a good theory

What is falsifiability?

200

A factor that is selected and manipulated or controlled by the experimenter; influences another phenomenon 

What is an independent variable?

200

agreement by participants stating they are willing to be in a study after they learn something about what the procedure will involve

What is informed consent?

200

Measurement scale used for a person's person's credit score (300-850).

What is interval? (no absolute zero)

300

Early on, this can prevent confusion in the research process (clearly defining your concepts and explaining how they will be measured)

What is good conceptualization and operationalization

300

_____ is the process by which scientists with expertise in a particular field assess a study before it is published in a top-quality scientific journal. ?A. Applied research

What is peer review?

300

A person is studying the effect of consumption of alcohol on midterm grades. Midterm grades is the ___________

What is dependent variable?

300

Groups like juveniles and prisoners who require special protections.

What are special populations?

300
Measurement scale used for the number of guesses it takes to answer a jeopardy question correctly
What is ratio?
400

Exists when statements or conclusions about empirical reality are correct

What is validity

400

With this reasoning, we begin with data collection and observations, make empirical generalizations, and then develop a theory

What is inductive reasoning?

400

As once variable increases, the other variable increases.

What is a positive association?

400

Studies that prompted the Belmont Report

What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Stanford Prison Experiment, Millgram's Obedience Study 
400

Measurement scale used to assess ratings of usefulness of this jeopardy review by students using a 5-point scale ranging from not useful at all to very useful

What is ordinal?

500

Knowledge based observations and/or experiment

What is empirical?

500

These are the 4 goals of behavioral science and research:

What is description, explanation, exploration, and evaluation

500

All of the specific aspects, characteristics, or components of a concept

What are dimensions?

500

The 3 guiding principles of the Belmont Report

What is respect for persons, beneficence, justice

500

When the conclusions of research are based on the interpretations of a narrative/text, _____ research has been employed. However, if the conclusions are based upon statistical analyses of the data, _____ research has been employed.

What is qualitative; quantitative?

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