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is an indication of the consistency or stability of a measuring instrument.
Selected
b.
Answer:
Reliabilit
y
• Question 2
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Providing information about the true purpose of a study as soon after the
completion of data collection as possible is referred to as
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c.
Answer:
debriefin
g.
• Question 3
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Individuals with diminished autonomy include:
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all of
Answer:
the
• Question 4 above
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An evaluation and interpretation of the results is to the section as describing
how the study was conducted is to the section.
Selected
b.
Answer:
Discussion;
Method
• Question 5
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reliability is determined by assessing the degree of relationship between
scores on two equivalent tests.
Selected
b.
Answer:
Alternate-
forms
• Question 6
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In order to discover the extent to which education can be used to predict political
preferences, researchers are most likely to engage in
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a.
Answer:
correlational
research.
, • Question 7
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Truthfulness is to as consistency is to .
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d.
Answer:
validity;
reliability
• Question 8
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The Tuskegee syphilis study is the most glaring example of failure to
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a.
Answer:
obtain informed
consent.
• Question 9
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three principles essential to the ethical
conduct of research with humans as identified in the Belmont Report?
Selected
diminished
Answer:
autonomy
• Question 10
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A property of measurement in which a difference of 1 is the same amount
throughout the entire scale is
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c.
Answer:
equal unit
size.
• Question 11
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A table in which all of the scores are listed along with the frequency with which
each occurs is a .
Selected
d.
Answer:
frequency
distribution
• Question 12
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When Ms. Jones calculated her students’ accounting test scores, she noticed that
one student had an extremely low score. Which measure of central tendency
should not be used in this situation?
Selected
a.
Answer:
mea