Research (Planning, Conducting, and Reporting) Quiz # 18

Which design includes two control groups that parallel two experimental groups and also involves pre-post tests?

Latin Square

Complete Counterbalancing

Partial Counterbalancing

Solomon’s Four-group Design

A time series design involves many observations on the same variable that are conducted consecutively over a period of time.

True

False

Which of the following might be used by architects and designers?

Pre-Post Design

Solomon’s Four-group design

Post-occupancy evaluation

Non-equivalent control group design

In the longitudinal design, you follow the same people over time.

True

False

Representativeness is the degree to which your sample reflects the population as a whole.

True

False

Which of the following is a difference in those who choose to participate in research?

Males participate earlier in the semester.

Those who are more conscientious participate later in the semester.

Those who participate later in the semester are more extroverte

Those who participate earlier in the semester are more open to new experiences.

The Sona system helps manage subject pools.

True

False

In order to increase participation, researchers should do which of the following?

Avoid study labels which might bias responses.

Advertise shorter study times.

Recruit participants for your study at the end of the semester when students are desperate.

Offer session times during the day when students aren’t working.

Researchers can deny participants credit if they don’t return for a follow-up session.

True

False

Researchers have an ethical responsibility to let potential participants know that the research topic is sensitive.

True

False

What is the most important aspect of choosing participants?

The cost of paying for participation.

The convenience of obtaining enough to conduct your study.

The research question.

The representativeness of the population.

To enhance security for participants and researchers, the study should be conducted in a public place unless doing so would put the participant at risk.

True

False

What is the term for courses in which students integrate academic material with internships or volunteer work?

Service courses

Paid subject pools

Unpaid subject pools

Bureaucracy

The APA Code of Ethics has a section arguing that professionals should avoid multiple relationships if possible.

True

False

What is the term for the tendency of larger bureaucracies to be less likely to give permission to conduct research?

The inverse correlation

The solicition location

Perfect your pitch

Be mobile

Which of the following is NOT a problem with conducting research online?

The tendency of participants to rush through the survey.

The lack of control over the circumstances in which participants complete the survey.

The inability of participants to ask questions if they don’t understand something.

The efficiency in saved time on the part of the researcher.

Snowball sampling involves first asking friends to participate who in turn ask their friends and so on.

True

False

Which of the following is an ethical issue with conducting research online?

There are few guidelines.

The research qualifies as human subjects research.

The participants have to give consent to access their information.

Signing up for an online account gives permission to use information

Probability sampling is the ability to make precise statements about the representativeness of your sample.

True

False

Portability refers to the ability of researchers to relocate in order to access different participant groups.

True

False

What is the term for a computer program which allows researchers to distribute the different conditions across participants?

Randomizer function

SPSS

PSYCInfo

Amazon MTurk

When you set up a data file, the distinction between a variable and level is critical.

True

False

Which two principles are key in deciding what values to assign to data?

Logic and consecutive sequence

Simplicity and complexity

Specificity and linearity

Number and label

String variables results from answers given in a text box.

True

False

What is the term for labels of data that give information about the content of the question?

Transparent

Non-transparent

Numeric

String

An advantage of entering the score for each item on a scale is the ability to calculate Cronbach’s alph

True

False

The compute function should come before calculation of Cronbach’s alph

True

False

What is the term for deleting a case completely if any data are missing?

Listwise deletion

Pairwise deletion

Attrition

Non-response rate

Imputation involves replacing missing values with substitute values.

True

False

A concern with deleting outliers is that the researcher might be doing so to make it more likely to find statistically significant results. This is called?

Opportunistic bias

Optimism

Elimination observations

Transparency