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Naturalistic and Existing Data Research MCQ

The us consumes almost _______ of timber annually.

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Correct Answer: 20 billion cubic feet

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In a meta-analysis, the effect size with a value ______ to 0 indicates a weaker relationship between two factors.

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Correct Answer: Closer

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What is the likelihood of detecting an effect or mean difference in one or more population called?

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Correct Answer: Statistical power

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A researcher uses this method to analyze or interpret content of records.

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Correct Answer: Content analysis

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Several years after their study, a research team destroys some of the data to clear space for a new project. What is the remaining data called?

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Correct Answer: Selective survival

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The use of hidden cameras to observe behavior is an example of a(n) ______.

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Correct Answer: Unobtrusive observation

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What method is a researcher using when she records the time between repeated behaviors during a fixed period?

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Correct Answer: Latency method

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The collection, review, and analysis of any type of existing documents or records, including those that are written or recorded as video, audio, or in other electronic form is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Existing data design

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What method are researchers employing when they use unobtrusive observations in order to not tip off participants in what is really being observed?

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Correct Answer: Indirect measures

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What kind of behavior observation takes place when a researcher goes to a natural setting, like a classroom, to observe students?

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Correct Answer: Naturalistic observation

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What are we distinguishing when we first identify all the categories, then create a list of behaviors that count?

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Correct Answer: Behavior categories

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A researcher observes the morning routine of a family with two children. To manage the observation period, he records behavior by observing one family member at a time each minute until the morning routine was complete. Which method did she use to manage the observation period?

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Correct Answer: Individual sampling

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A researcher observes a football game and counts the number of times the coach on the winning and losing team complains to a referee. Which method did he use to quantify observations?

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Correct Answer: Frequency method

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We make unobtrusive observations using a naturalistic observation except in what circumstance?

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Correct Answer: We want to interfere with and change a participants’ behavior.

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What are the two types of research settings that use the naturalistic research design?

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Correct Answer: Natural and contrived

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A technique used by an observer to record or observe behavior in a way that does not interfere with or change a participant’s behavior in a research setting is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Unobtrusive observation

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A strategy used to manage an observation period by splitting a fixed period of time into smaller intervals of time and then making observations during alternating intervals until the full observation period has ended is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Time sampling

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A location or site arranged to mimic the natural setting within which a behavior of interest normally occurs to facilitate the occurrence of that behavior is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Structured setting

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Statistical power is the likelihood that data in a sample can detect or discover an effect in a population, assuming that the effect does not exist in the population of interest.

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Correct Answer: False

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The process by which existing records survive or are excluded/decay over time is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Selective survival

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The process by which existing records are selectively recorded or deposited into document files that can be accessed for analysis is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Selective deposit

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Power is the probability in hypothesis testing of rejecting a_____ hypothesis.

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Correct Answer: False null

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The observation of behavior in the natural setting where it is expected to occur, with limited or no attempt to overtly manipulate the conditions of the environment where the observations are made is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Naturalistic observation

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A location or site where a behavior of interest normally occurs is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Natural setting

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A type of existing data design in which data are combined, analyzed, and summarized across a group of related studies to make statistically guided decisions about the strength or reliability of the reported findings in those studies is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Meta analysis

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A method used to quantify observations made in a study by recording the time or duration between the occurrences of behaviors during a fixed period of time is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Latency method

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A method used to quantify observations made in a study by dividing an observational period into equal intervals of time and then recording whether or not certain behaviors occur in each interval is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Interval method

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A strategy used to manage an observation period by splitting a fixed period of time into smaller intervals of time and then recording the behaviors of a different participant in each time interval is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Individual sampling

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A method used to quantify observations made in a study by counting the number of times a behavior occurs during a fixed or predetermined period of time is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Frequency method

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Existing data collection is the _____ of any type of existing documents or records, including those that are written or recorded as video, as audio, or in other electronic form.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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A strategy used to manage an observation period by splitting a fixed period of time into smaller intervals of time and then recording a different behavior in each time interval is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Event sampling

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Effect size is a statistical measure of the size or magnitude of an observed effect in a population, which allows researchers to describe_____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A method used to quantify observations made in a study by recording the amount of time that participants engage in a certain behavior during a fixed period of time is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Duration method

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Contrived setting is a location or site arranged to mimic the natural setting within which a behavior of interest normally occurs to _____ the occurrence of that behavior.

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Correct Answer: Facilitate

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A type of existing data design in which the content of written or spoken records of the occurrence of specific events or behaviors is described and interpreted is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Content analysis

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Archival research is a type of existing data design in which events or behaviors are described based on_____ of relevant historical or archival records.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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