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PSY 260 Topic 4 Exam 2 – Onground

1. Question: The aim of the Tuskegee Study was to examine which disease?
2. Question: In considering whether research is ethical, which of the following are balanced against each other?
3. Question: Imagine that Dr. Kline is a clinical psychologist who volunteers his time at a local prison counseling several Because of his connections there, he is considering using prisoners as his participants. Why is this choice potentially problematic?
4. Question: To address the Belmont principle of beneficence, Kline would need to ask which of the following questions?
5. Question: Kline suspects that the people who will most benefit from his study are high school and college students, who are asked to perform cognitive functions in various states of sleep deprivation. Given this information, what type of participants should Dr. Kline recruit for his study?
6. Question: Kline’s decision about the type of participants to recruit should be informed by which of the following principles of the Belmont Report?
7. Question: As a psychologist who primarily does research, Kline is most concerned with which APA standard of ethics?
8. Question: Kline plans to use deception in his study and is thinking about a debriefing session. Which of the following is true of the debriefing?
9. Question: Kline’s IRB requires him to obtain written informed consent. Which of the following does Dr. Kline NOT need to include in his informed consent document?
10. Question: The American Psychological Association’s ethical guidelines have principles and
11. Question: Why is plagiarism a violation of ethics?
12. Question: In addition to being an ethical violation, why are data falsification and fabrication problematic?
13. Question: For her research methods class, Serena plans to interview several teachers about their attitude toward teaching children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This is an example of what type of measurement?
14. Question: Which of the following is NOT an example of physiological measurement?
15. Question: In which of the following ways are content and face validity similar?
16. Question: Gore is conducting a survey examining people’s opinions toward funding for collegiate athletics on his campus. He notices that several participants agree with all 12 questions. This could be an example of all the following EXCEPT:
17. Question: A study by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) involved telling teachers that some of their students were “bloomers” and would achieve rapid academic success within the next year. In fact, these students were no different than any of the other students in the At the end of the year, the “bloomers” showed more gains in IQ than the other students. It appeared that the teacher had unintentionally treated the “bloomers” in special ways. This is an example of which of the following?
18. Question: Masked, or blind, study designs are designed to deal with:
19. Question: Observer bias relates mainly to whereas observer effects stem from   .
20. Question: Which of the following is a disadvantage of using open-ended questions?
21. Question: In the above scenario, Dr. Kramer plans to give his survey only to his Psychology and Law students because he sees them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and he can spare the class time (unlike in his Introduction to Neuroscience class, which only meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays). Which of the following is true?
22. Question: In the above scenario, Kramer needs to avoid which of the following if he hopes to avoid having a biased sample?
23. Question: In the above scenario, if all the students in Kramer’s two classes complete the survey, then Dr. Kramer has done which of the following?
24. Question: Jackson is a personality psychologist who is interested in studying the characteristics of people who report being abducted by UFOs. She finds several people in a support group to research and asks them if they can provide the names and contact information of other people who have also been abducted. Upon contacting these new participants, she asks them to refer her to even more people they may know who have been abducted. This is an example of what kind of sampling?
25. Question: What is the most common sampling technique in behavioral research?
    

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PSY 260 Topic 4 Exam 2 – Onground

1. Question: Kline’s IRB requires him to obtain written informed consent. Which of the following does Dr. Kline NOT need
2. Question: Which of the following is a disadvantage of using open-ended questions?
3. Question: Kline is planning on conducting a study next semester. He is curious as to whether sleep deprivation is associated with poorer cognitive performance. For example, if you sleep poorly the night before a big exam, will you do worse? Dr. Kline is especially curious about selective sleep deprivation, where people are kept from entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor brain waves, he plans to let participants sleep until they enter REM sleep and then he will wake them. After the participants are awake for one minute, Dr. Kline plans to let them return to sleep. As they enter REM sleep again, he will wake them again and follow the same procedure. He plans to do this through the entire eight- hour sleep session. The following morning, participants will be asked to take a sample SAT test.
4. Question: Imagine that Kline is a clinical psychologist who volunteers his time at a local prison counseling several inmates. participants. Why is this choice potentially problematic?
5. Question: Kline plans to use deception in his study and is thinking about a debriefing session. Which of the following is true?
6. Question: To address the Belmont principle of beneficence, Kline would need to ask which of the following questions?
7. Question: A study by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) involved telling teachers that some of their students were “bloomers” and would achieve rapid academic success within the next year. In fact, these students were no different than any of the other students in the At the end of the year, the “bloomers” showed more gains in IQ than the other students. It appeared that the teacher had unintentionally treated the “bloomers” in special ways. This is an example of which of the following?
8. Question: The American Psychological Association’s ethical guidelines have principles and           
9. Question: As a psychologist who primarily does research, Kline is most concerned with which APA standard of ethics?
10. Question: The aim of the Tuskegee Study was to examine which disease?
11. Question: Which of the following is NOT an example of physiological measurement?
12. Question: What is the most common sampling technique in behavioral research?
13. Question: Kline’s decision about the type of participants to recruit should be informed by which of the following principles
14. Question: Gore is conducting a survey examining people’s opinions toward funding for collegiate athletics on his campus. Han example of all of the following EXCEPT:
15. Question: In addition to being an ethical violation, why are data falsification and fabrication problematic?
16. Question: Masked, or blind, study designs are designed to deal with:
17. Question: Why is plagiarism a violation of ethics?
18. Question: In which of the following ways are content and face validity similar?
19. Question: Professor Kramer has decided to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester. He is teaching two classes this semester—Psychology and Law and Introduction to He gives his students a survey. In the above scenario, what is Dr. Kramer’s likely population of interest?
20. Question: Kline suspects that the people who will most benefit from his study are high school and college students, who are Given this information, what type of participants should Dr. Kline recruit for his study?
21. Question: Professor Kramer has decided to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this He is teaching two Neuroscience classes. He gives his students a survey. In the above scenario, Dr. Kramer needs to avoid which of the following if he hopes to avoid having a biased sample?
22. Question: In considering whether research is ethical, which of the following are balanced against each other?
23. Question: Observer bias relates mainly to whereas observer effects stem from  
24. Question: For her research methods class, Serena plans to interview several teachers about their attitude toward teaching children example of what type of measurement?
25. Question: Jackson is a personality psychologist who is interested in studying the characteristics of people who report being abducted by UFOS. She finds several people in a support group to research and asks them if they can provide the names and contact information of other people who have also been abducted. Upon contacting these new participants, she asks them to refer her to even more people they may know who have been abducted. This is an example of what kind of sampling?
26. Question: Professor Kramer has decided to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this He is teaching two classes this semester—Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience. He gives his students a survey.
27. Question: The group of people you want to study is called your .
28. Question: Which of the following does NOT result in a representative sample?
29. Question: How can we be sure that we have a representative sample?
30. Question: Random sampling is most closely related to which ethical principle of the Belmont Report?
31. Question: Because we cannot ethically coerce someone to participate in a study, we have to accept Unfortunately, one potential problem with this is self-selection bias. What does this mean?
32. Question: What are some pros and cons to open ended questions?
33. Question: Oishi is an educational psychologist interested in students’ attitudes toward math and the effect of those attitudes on performance on standardized tests. He chooses his local school district to study. There are 15 middle schools, and he randomly chooses five. Then, of the 1,500 students in each of those five schools, he randomly recruits 250 students. This is an example of which of the following sampling techniques?