PSY 255 midterm COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
GUARANTEED PASS
1. What is a construct? - ANSWER ✅ hypothetical entities created from
theory and speculation (can't be seen but assumed)
2. Confounding variables - ANSWER ✅ factors that cause differences
between the experimental group and the control group other than the
independent variable
3. Institutional Review Board - ANSWER ✅ A committee that reviews
research proposals to ensure ethical standards are met.
4. Types of Internal Validity - ANSWER ✅ Content, predictive, convergent,
concurrent, Divergent, and known groups
5. Face - ANSWER ✅ Appears to assess the construct
6. Concurrent - ANSWER ✅ concurs with another similar test
7. Predictive - ANSWER ✅ Able to predict some future criterion that is
supposed to be able to predict
8. Convergent - ANSWER ✅ strong relationship with related construct
, 9. divergent - ANSWER ✅ lack of relationship with unrelated construct
10.known groups - ANSWER ✅ differentiates between groups knows to differ
on the construct
11.Ethics in Research - ANSWER ✅ Informed consent, Beneficence and
nonmaleficence, Justice, Respect for rights and dignity, and vulnerable
populations
12.Informed Consent - ANSWER ✅ Purpose, risks, rights, confedentiality
13.Beneficence and nonmaleficence - ANSWER ✅ maximize benefits, avoid
harm. (i.e. allowing aparticipant with a heart condition to participate in an
adreneline study violatesnonmaleficence)
14.Justice - ANSWER ✅ fair distribution of benefits and burdens
15.Respect for rights and dignity - ANSWER ✅ Privacy and autonomy
16.Vunerable populations - ANSWER ✅ Children, prisoners, individuals with
cognitive impairments
17.Threats of internal validity - ANSWER ✅ history, maturation, testing
effects, regression to the mean, selection bias, mortality, and differential
attribution
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
GUARANTEED PASS
1. What is a construct? - ANSWER ✅ hypothetical entities created from
theory and speculation (can't be seen but assumed)
2. Confounding variables - ANSWER ✅ factors that cause differences
between the experimental group and the control group other than the
independent variable
3. Institutional Review Board - ANSWER ✅ A committee that reviews
research proposals to ensure ethical standards are met.
4. Types of Internal Validity - ANSWER ✅ Content, predictive, convergent,
concurrent, Divergent, and known groups
5. Face - ANSWER ✅ Appears to assess the construct
6. Concurrent - ANSWER ✅ concurs with another similar test
7. Predictive - ANSWER ✅ Able to predict some future criterion that is
supposed to be able to predict
8. Convergent - ANSWER ✅ strong relationship with related construct
, 9. divergent - ANSWER ✅ lack of relationship with unrelated construct
10.known groups - ANSWER ✅ differentiates between groups knows to differ
on the construct
11.Ethics in Research - ANSWER ✅ Informed consent, Beneficence and
nonmaleficence, Justice, Respect for rights and dignity, and vulnerable
populations
12.Informed Consent - ANSWER ✅ Purpose, risks, rights, confedentiality
13.Beneficence and nonmaleficence - ANSWER ✅ maximize benefits, avoid
harm. (i.e. allowing aparticipant with a heart condition to participate in an
adreneline study violatesnonmaleficence)
14.Justice - ANSWER ✅ fair distribution of benefits and burdens
15.Respect for rights and dignity - ANSWER ✅ Privacy and autonomy
16.Vunerable populations - ANSWER ✅ Children, prisoners, individuals with
cognitive impairments
17.Threats of internal validity - ANSWER ✅ history, maturation, testing
effects, regression to the mean, selection bias, mortality, and differential
attribution
