Research (Planning, Conducting, and Reporting) Quiz # 19

Going fishing is also called data dredging.

True

False

Which is safer?

Recode into Same Variables

Recode into Different Variables

Labeling only those variables involved in analyses

Reversing items after calculating Cronbach’s alpha

If you go fishing, make sure you clearly present these analyses as post ho

True

False

Which computer program takes the text you have and creates word clouds?

Wordle

Easy Chi Square calculator

Social Science Statistics

Graphpad

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s work without giving appropriate credit.

True

False

Using an author’s exact words without placing them in quotation marks is a form of plagiarism.

True

False

Using multiple direct quotes with quotation marks in a row is a form of plagiarism.

True

False

Which parts of a research paper are the most specific and precise?

Abstract and Introduction

Introduction and Method

Method and Results

Results and Discussion

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the title of a research paper?

The title should not be longer than 12 words.

It is used for indexing in databases.

The title should include the keywords given in the abstract.

It should include words such as study of or experimen

Which of the following is true of the abstract?

The word “Abstract” is centered and unbolde

The text of the Abstract is centere

The word Keywords is placed at the beginning of the abstract after the work Abstract.

The keywords themselves are italicize

He literature review in the Introduction should be exhaustive.

True

False

The best way to start the Introduction is with a personal anecdote.

True

False

Which of the following is NOT true of the Method section?

It is straightforward and detaile

It has three (or four depending on the study) sub-sections.

It should be nearly finished when you turn in the IR

It should provide all the details necessary for the study to be replicate

The reader should be reminded of the researcher’s specific hypotheses throughout the paper.

True

False

Which of the following is true of the Results section?

The numbers tell the whole story.

There should be a clear narrative before the numbers are given for each hypothesis.

Results should be written at an Introductory Psychology level.

The researcher should present secondary findings first and then move up to the primary findings.

The reader should be reminded about what the scores on a particular scale mean in the Results section.

True

False

The reader needs to be told what to look for in a table before being referred to the table.

True

False

Which of the following is true of reporting the p value?

Authors should only state whether p is greater or less than .05.

Authors should give the exact p value as a general rule.

Authors should use different asterisks in tables to reflect differing alpha levels for different sets of dat

Authors should report a zero alpha level.

Which of the following is true when writing the Discussion?

The Introduction and Discussion should be roughly the same in length.

The Discussion section should include statistics.

The Discussion should follow a funnel shape in organization.

The Discussion should report every flaw in the study.

Which statistic should be used if you have one (nominal) independent variable and three dependent variables (all interval/ratio)?

Independent samples t-test

One Way ANOVA

Multivariate ANOVA

Linear regression