Build a Solid Foundation on Past Research MCQ

What is your favorite class?” is an example of a ______ response format.

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Correct Answer: Open-ended

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Testing whether two different versions of a test or scale are equivalent is an example of ______.

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Correct Answer: Alternate forms reliability

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In a primary research article, detailed information about the results is found in the ______ section, whereas an interpretation of the results is found in the ______ section.

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Correct Answer: Results; Discussion

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Which of the following is considered a primary research source?

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Correct Answer: Reports of original research

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Identify the APA format mistake in the following reference: Latane, B., & Darley, J. M. (1968). Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 10, 215–221. doi:10.1037/h0026570

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Correct Answer: The journal name and volume should be in italics.

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The majority of the sources you cite in your own research report should be ______.

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Correct Answer: Primary research articles published in academic journals

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The Introduction section of a primary research article ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The Method section of a primary research article ______.

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Correct Answer: Provides detailed information about participants, procedures, and measures

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The Abstract of a primary research article ______.

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Correct Answer: Is a brief overview of the entire study

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A researcher conducts a study examining the relationship between environmental attitudes and political party affiliation. What might be a good title for the research report?

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Correct Answer: The Relationship Between Political Party Affiliation and Environmental Attitudes

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A review of past research would be found in ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Which of the following is considered a scholarly source?

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Correct Answer: Articles published in academic journals

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Statistical significance testing is a process to reduce the likelihood that the results were obtained by chance alone.

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Correct Answer: True

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The authors review research but do not report results of an original study is called

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Correct Answer: Secondary research source

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Works designed to advance knowledge in a field, written by someone with expertise in that field for others with knowledge of the field, that cite and build upon other scholarly sources is called scholarly work

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Correct Answer: True

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The authors report the results of an original research study that they conducted is called

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Correct Answer: Primary research source

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Report of the method and results of an original research study (i.e., a primary research source) that is pub-lished in an academic journal is called primary research article

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Correct Answer: True

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The ability to reject the ________ when it is, in fact, false is called power

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Correct Answer: Null hypothesis

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________ works is works designed to entertain or educate and that were written for those who do not necessarily have any expertise in the topic area.

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Correct Answer: Popular works

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__________ is a process in which scholarly works are reviewed by other experts in the field.

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Correct Answer: Peer review

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Meta analysis is a type of review in which the statistical results of past research are synthesized but no original data were collected or analyzed.

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Correct Answer: True

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Review of past research without a report of original research is called literature review

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Correct Answer: True

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The degree to which we can say that we found an accurate relationship among variables, in that changes in one variable (the DV) are caused by changes in another variable (the IV). Relevant only to studies exam-ining causation is called

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Correct Answer: Internal validity

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The degree to which we can say that the results of a study are accurate for different types of peo-ple in different settings assessed with different procedures is called

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Correct Answer: External validity

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Critique or comments about a published ________ is called commentaries

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Correct Answer: Research article.

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