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Unit 2 Review -Research Methods

Authored by Katherine Ehrke

Social Studies

11th - 12th Grade

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Unit 2 Review -Research Methods
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What must a researcher do to fulfill the ethical principle of informed consent?

Keep information about participants confidential
Allow participants to choose whether to take part
Provide participants with a pre-experimental explanation of the study
Protect participants from potential harm

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which ethical principle requires that at the end of the study participants be told about the true purpose of the research?

Institutional Review Board Approval
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Debriefing

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which descriptive statistic would a researcher use to describe how close a student's SAT score is to a school's average SAT score?

Correlation coefficient
mean
median
Standard Deviation

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which method of study should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation cause students to behave better?

Case Study
Experiment
Survey
Naturalistic Observation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

When a distribution of scores is skewed, which of the following is the most representative measure of central tendency?

Inference
Standard Deviation
Mean
Median

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

A researcher wants to conduct an experiment to determine if eating a cookie before class each day improves student grades.  He uses two psychology classes for the experiment, providing daily cookies to one and nothing to the other.  At the end of the semester, the researcher compares the final grades of students in the two classes. What is the independent variable for this experiment

The students in the class that received the cookies
The presence or absence of the cookies
The students in the class that didn't receive cookies
the period of the day that the two classes met

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following represents naturalistic observation?

Researchers watch and record how elementary school children interact on the playground
Researchers bring participants into a laboratory to see how they respond to a puzzle with no solution
A principal looks at the relationships between the number of students absence and their grades
Two grandparents sit in the front row to watch their grandson's first piano recital

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