Research Methods
Ethics
Research Design
Statistics
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100
The statistical combination of results from two or more separate studies.
What is meta-analysis?
100
This organization put in place the ethical research standards for the US.
What is the APA (American Psychological Association)?
100
Fred is collecting data on people's favorite subject and the hours of sleep they get each night. Write down which is qualitative and which is quantitative.
Favorite subject = qualitative
Hours of sleep = quantitative
100
Hayden conducts an experiment. They find a correlation with an r-value of -0.45. Their correlation can be described as this.
What is moderate negative?
100
Two variables are related, but we don't know which one causes the other.
What is directionality problem?
200
Research design where two variables are compared to try to find a trend. IT CANNOT PROVE CAUSATION!!!
What is correlation(al study)?
200
This ethical standard can be violated during an experiment so long as it is explained in the debrief.
What is deception?
200
Clay is doing a research project on how a song's length affects its popularity. Suggest an operational definition for how Clay could measure popularity.
Answers may include: streams on Spotify, views on YouTube, peak Billboard chart ranking, etc
200
Describe the skew of this graph.
What is skewed right/positive skew?
200
Amanda is reading a murder mystery and has a hunch one character is the killer. She finds much more evidence against this character than any other suspect in the case. Amanda is exhibiting...
What is confirmation bias?
300
Carla uses an online number generator to choose which of her classmates to survey. This is an example of this research design.
What is random sampling?
300
Leaving survey responses anonymous complies with this ethical standard.
What is confidentiality?
300
Wesley wants to know his school's opinions on the rival school's football team. He conducts a survey where he asks every third person who walks into his biology class their opinion. This is the population that Wesley's findings can be generalized to.
What is his biology class? (Not a representative sample of his school!)
300
Sarah conducts an experiment and her results have a p-value of .03. Her results can be concluded to be this.
What is statistically significant?
300
Your dad is berating a coach for making the wrong call in last night's football game. He explains to you what the correct play would've been. He is exhibiting this cognitive bias.
What is hindsight bias?
400
Only type of research that can prove causation
What is an experiment?
400
Sam takes part in a clinical trial for a new medicine. They exhibit an allergic reaction to the medicine, which the company does not remedy or compensate them for. This ethical standard has been violated.
What is protection from harm?
400
Moriah is planning an experiment to see which fertilizer makes plants grow the most. She will use two different fertilizers on Plant A and Plant B and leaves Plant C without fertilizer. Name the independent and dependent variables and the control group.
What are type of fertilizer (IV), plant growth (DV), and Plant C/plant without fertilizer (control group)?
400
Find the mean, median, and mode.
1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5
What are 3, 3, and 3?
400
A hypothesis or theory is only scientific if it can be proven incorrect. In other words, it must be this.
What is falsifiable?
500
Phineas survived an iron bar being driven through his head during a railroad accident and is now behaving strangely. A group of psychologists wants to study his changes in personality. This is the research method they should use.
What is case study?
500
Ms. Dukes is conducting a study with her fourth period class, which is all sophomores. She gives half the class blue cards and the other red cards, then tells the class that the students with blue cards get special privileges. She records the students' behavior throughout the class. Before the bell rings, she explains the experiment and posts the results anonymously online. Name the ethical guideline Ms. Dukes' experiment violates.
What is informed ASSENT? (the class is composed of sophomores-- under 18)
500
Dr. Jones is conducting an experiment where one set of patients receives a real medication while the other receives a placebo. To eliminate bias, neither the patients nor Dr. Jones know which they receive. Name the research protocol this is an example of.
What is double-blind?
500
Draw a normal curve including what percentages of the data should be between each standard deviation.
500
Gabe is conducting a survey. Name one bias that might cause his results to be inaccurate.
What is self-report bias [or] social desirability bias?