Research (Planning, Conducting, and Reporting) Quiz # 16

Measuring how many times curse words are used in music videos involves the use of human subjects.

True

False

Research involving children usually falls under which category of IRB review?

Exempt

Expedited

Full

Diagnostic

If the researcher has information that could identify the participant, the data are considered confidential.

True

False

If you send an informed consent home with a group of second graders, which of the following are you obtaining if a lack of objection allows the child to participate?

Active consent

Passive consent

Assent

Secondary analysis

Which of the following is the term for consistency of scores over time?

Validity

Reliability

Internal consistency

Cronbach’s alpha

Which is the statistic used to measure internal reliability?

Z-score

ANOVA

Cronbach’s alpha

Tukey’s t-test

A criteria is an idea or theory whose properties are inferred from some kind of measurement and is not directly observable.

True

False

The goal is to have minimal overlap between your construct and the actual measure you use.

True

False

What is the term for the way we measure a construct?

Operational definition

Criteria

Open-ended

The top five songs on the country music countdown are an example of which scale of measurement?

Nominal

Ordinal

Ratio

Interval

A chi-square analysis has a nominal independent and an interval/ratio dependent variable.

True

False

Which scale corresponds to answers on a Likert scale?

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

Which term corresponds to the ability of a scale to detect differences that exist?

Validity

Reliability

Standardization

Sensitivity

The psychometric properties of an instrument include the number of items and the reliability of that measure.

True

False

A student might locate a measure on PSYCTests

True

False

What is the term for wording at least a third of items on a scale in the opposite direction of the majority of items?

Reverse coding

Parallel forms

Split-half reliability

Content validity

The validity of a scale is its ability to measure what it claims it measures.

True

False

What is the term for a measure that does not correlate highly with measures with which it is hypothesized to be dissimilar?

Criterion validity

Convergent validity

Discriminant validity

Nomological network

Correlational research involves the use of Pearson’s r.

True

False

Which of the following is an example of a confounding variable?

A third variable

The independent variable

The dependent variable

A controlled covariate

In a taste test, the first group of students tasting pizza receive feedback and the pizza is still hot. The second group of students does not receive feedback and the pizza is cold by the time they participate. Feedback is the independent variable and temperature is not studied. Temperature of the pizza is called which of the following?

Confound variable

Control variable

Correlational variable

Dependent variable

The problem of directionality occurs when a third variable interferes with the interpretation of results.

True

False

Which of the following designs allows you to infer causality?

Correlational

Experimental

Quasi-experimental

Regression analysis

Qualitative research may involve some quantitative evaluation.

True

False

In which of the following would the researcher have the most involvement?

Archival research

Case studies

Non-participant observation

Physical traces

In which of the following would the researcher have the most involvement?

Archival research

Case studies

Non-participant observation

Physical traces

Reflexivity is a form of subject role in which participants react without thinking to what is asked of them in the study.

True

False

What is the term for the removal of the subjectivity of the experimenter from the research process?

Ethnographic research

Mixed methods

Positivism

Reflexivity

The ability to prove your hypothesis false is called falsifiability.

True

False

Which of the following is NOT included in archival research?

School records that are not linked to specific individuals

Documents in the state historical records

Newspaper articles from the 1800s

Journal articles that describe original research