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Questions
1. Which of the ten APA ethical standards is most relevant to research?
Ethical Standard 10
Ethical Standard 3
Ethical Standard 5
Ethical Standard 8
2. In a previous correlational study, Dr. Lafayette has found that owning dogs is associated with lower levels of daily stress in a sample of returning war veterans. Which of the following would constitute a shift from theory-testing mode to generalization mode?
conducting an experimental study in which he assigns participants to own a dog or not
conducting a study on the same sample of war veterans, this time using a different measure of daily stress
conducting a study examining the stress reduction mechanism
conducting a study on dog ownership using a sample of elderly participants from a local retirement home
3. Which of the following is the description of a quasi experiment?
A researcher was examining the effects of caffeine on reading comprehension. she randomly assigned participants to one of three independent variable conditions: those who drink one cup of soda, two cups of soda, or no soda.
A researcher is looking to see if smoking affects levels of stress. The researcher looked at one group of life long smokers and a group of non smokers to compare their average levels of stress.
A researcher randomly assigned participants to the Treatment group or the control group to see if workers who get paid more efficiently worked more than the workers who didn't.
None of these would be considered a quasi experiment.
4. Which of the following studies would be LEAST likely to be influenced by cultural differences?
a study examining motor responses in newborns
a study explaining rates of divorce across different cultures
a study of the association between depression and beliefs about mental health
a study examining the effect of parental education on child socialization
5. A researcher wanteds to replicate Asch's (1956) classic findings on conformity. She followed the original methodology and used only male participants, she used groups of 8 (the same amount of groups as the original study), and presented the same stimuli (lines of differing lengths) in the same order as the original study.
What type of Replication would this be considered?
a conceptual replication
a replication-plus-extension study
a direct replication
none of the above
6. In considering whether research is ethical, which of the following are balanced against each other?
risk to participants vs. value of the knowledge gained from the research
inconvenience to participants vs. benefits to the researcher
importance of the research vs. financial cost to conduct the study
time investment of the study vs. complexity of the study.