Data collection method & Ethics

Miss Bayly is conducting an experiment on her Psychology class. To ensure she has conducted it ethically and obtained true informed consent, she must:

• offer the participants a reward for participating in the experiment

• debrief her participants if she uses deception

• inform the participants of the nature of the research, any risks of participating, and their rights in the research

• promise to keep the participants' information private and confidential

Which ethical principle states participants should be free to leave the research setting whenever they wish.

• informed consent

• withdrawal

• confidentiality

• debriefing

Gaining permission from a person to take part in a study and telling them what is involved is referred to as.....

• withdrawal

• confidentiality

• informed consent

• debriefing

What ethical principle states that all data must be kept anonymous.

• informed consent

• confidentiality

• withdrawal

Which data collection method can be used determine a cause-effect relationship?

• Experiment

• Self-reports

• Observational study

• Case study

Where participants are misled or wrongly informed about the aims of the research, this is referred to as

A researcher stood at a school parking lot entrance to see if the color of a car is related to the driver not wearing a seatbelt.

• Observational Study

• Experiment

• Case study

• Self-report

A psychologist designed a study to test the effects of cell phone use on driving safety. Participants were randomly assigned either to drive an automobile simulator while talking to a friend on a cell phone or to drive a simulator without talking on a phone.

Which type of research does the scenario describe?

• Experiment

• Observation

• Self-reports

• Case study

A researcher aims to investigate the effect of television programs on cognitive development. She plans to conduct an in-depth investigation on 4 students. This research method is best characterized as...

• Experiment

• Observational study

• Self-reports

• Case study

You want to see if students who have a 4.0 grade point average study more than those who do not by running an online survey. Which type of data collection method is used?

• Experiment

• Observational study

• Self-reports

• Case study