Research Ethics
This principle requires that participants know what they’re agreeing to before taking part in a study.
What is informed consent?
The kind of reliability assessed when the same test is given twice to the same people.
What is test–retest reliability?
A study that compares different groups at a single point in time is called this.
What is a cross-sectional design?
A variable that varies with the IV and could explain the DV instead is called this.
What is a confounder?
The official title of Kayla's study decided by the class.
What is Books v. Balls?
This principle calls on researchers to maximize benefits and minimize harm.
What is beneficence?
When all items on a scale measure the same construct, we say the scale shows this.
What is internal consistency?
In this design every participant experiences every experimental condition.
What is within-subjects/repeated-measures?
Improvement arising purely from expecting to receive treatment is known as this effect.
What is the placebo effect?
The game that we played on a whim to celebrate symposium day being over.
What is quiplash?
The organization that ensures a research proposal is ethical to conduct.
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
The ability to generalize findings beyond the study setting reflects this type of validity.
What is external validity?
Neither participants nor experimenters know who gets the pill or the placebo in this gold-standard trial.
What is a double-blind (randomized clinical trial)?
You’d use this statistical technique to tease apart the unique contribution of several correlated predictors.
What is a multiple regression/partial correlations?
The item that Dr. Joey brought to our potluck.
What is Korean glass noodles?
The ethical term for intentionally withholding the true purpose of a study until afterwards.
What is deception?
A measure that correlates strongly with other established measures of the same construct shows this.
What is convergent validity?
A longitudinal study that starts with an outcome-free sample and tracks who develops the outcome over time.
What is a prospective cohort?
When scores bunch at the bottom of a scale, masking any treatment effect, you’ve hit this kind of limitation.
What is a floor effect?
The medication that Tom is allergic to.
What is penicillin?
After a deceptive study, researchers must conduct this process to explain everything and restore participants’ autonomy.
What is debriefing?
A modern alternative to Cronbach’s α, this coefficient estimates internal consistency while allowing for items with unequal loadings and error variances.
What is McDonald’s ω / omega?
In this single-case, time-series design, the intervention is staggered across different behaviours, settings, or individuals to rule out history threats.
What is a multiple-baseline design?
Participants who alter their behaviour simply because they’re being observed are showing this effect.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
The person who started many intense encounters with our classmates about their life goals and careers at symposium day.
Who is Joe McDonnell?