Ethics Principles
Language from an informed consent form: "We anticipate that this study will help practitioners better understand if bipolar disorder can be diagnosed using a non-traditional indicator of the illness." This language indicates the concept of __________
What is beneficence?
In a study about efficacy of the disputed rainbow crosswalks, you recruit students to cross the street using a standard crosswalk or a rainbow crosswalk in downtown Atlanta.
What is protection from harm?
If an instrument measures something other than what it intends to measure, what key criterion is not fulfilled?
What is validity?
Two research partners read the same interview but mark different interpretations their chosen measurement scale. This instrument has failed_______________ .
What is interrater reliability?
The only scale with an absolute zero point
Which is ratio?
A study that recruits individuals with dementia must go through a full IRB review because that subject pool is a _________________
What is protected group?
Last week, Kaden's results showed specific brain patterns in his mice, but he's having trouble remembering how to use the machine this week and the patterns are different so he decides not to include this week's batch.
What is honesty with professional colleagues?
After analyzing her data, Shayna was confident that the only explanation for her subjects' increase in scores on the test was the targeted training she had provided the day before. Assuming she is correct, her study satisfies ___________________.
What is statistical conclusion validity?
The class average for form B is higher than for form A even though the same content was tested and all other factors were kept constant. This assessment has failed __________________.
What is equivalence forms reliability?
Can compare measures by degrees of difference but zero point is unclear
What is interval scale?
A researcher convinces twelve families who participated in his study on the harm of a medical intervention to use his lawyer for a lawsuit against the company making the intervention.
What is research misconduct?
Jessie filled out a Facebook survey about what Hogwarts house was hers and got Hufflepuff on Tuesday but Slytherin on Wednesday. The quiz fails __________.
What is test-retest reliability?
The pediatrician office has a series of sad to happy faces to describe how you're feeling. This is described as a(n) ____________ scale.
What is an ordinal scale?
The survey question, "How much did you love your new glitter hair dye?" is a poor question because it lacks _____________________
What is non-biased language?
In a study about student's perceptions of reasons to live, you photograph students as they place sticky notes on the display in the cafeteria. Careful- there are TWO!
What is voluntary and informed participation AND right to privacy?
If you extended your work on high school students to a population of young adults and saw the same results, your study would have __________________.
What is external validity?
In one section of a survey, Trupti's answers indicated that was experiencing anxiety through most of last week while another section showed that she experienced no anxiety last week. What was violated?
What is internal consistency reliability?
Your paperwork discloses that your study will take approximately two and a half hours of journaling each day for five days to all your participants due to the requirement of _________________
What is informed consent?
In a study measuring elementary school children's perceptions of celebrities, they were asked to click on pictures of people they recognized, but a survey indicated they clicked on photos of all the people whose outfits they admired. The study passed _______________ but is ultimately invalid.
What is face validity?
In a study of music's influence on typing speed, both the control and variable groups inexplicably increased their speed. What is the name of the phenomenon that caused this?
What is the Hawthorne effect?