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WorksheetsKey Terms in Research Ethics
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
What is the principle of full disclosure at the end of an experiment?
At risk
Debriefing
Fraud
Informed consent
What is the concept that all sensate species that feel pain are of equal value and have rights?
Animal rights
Animal welfare
At risk
Debriefing
What is the humane care and treatment of animals?
Animal rights
Animal welfare
At risk
Debriefing
What is the term for an institutional committee that reviews proposed research to safeguard the safety and rights of human participants?
Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)
Institutional review board (IRB)
Minimal risk
Plagiarism
What is the unethical practice of falsifying or fabricating data?
Fraud
Informed consent
Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)
Institutional review board (IRB)
What is the term for an institutional committee that reviews proposed research to safeguard the welfare of animal subjects?
Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)
Institutional review board (IRB)
Minimal risk
Plagiarism
What is a subject's voluntary agreement to participate in a research project after the nature and purpose of the study have been explained?
Fraud
Informed consent
Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)
Institutional review board (IRB)
What is the likelihood of a subject being harmed in some way because of the nature of the research?
At risk
Debriefing
Fraud
Informed consent
What is the subject's odds of being harmed are not increased by the research?
Minimal risk
Plagiarism
Risk/benefit analysis
Cluster sampling
What is a determination, made by an IRB, that any risks to the individual are outweighed by potential benefits?
Risk/benefit analysis
Cluster sampling
Content analysis
Context effects
What is the representation of someone else's ideas, words, or written work as one's own?
Minimal risk
Plagiarism
Risk/benefit analysis
Cluster sampling
What are effects produced by the position of a question?
Context effects
Continuous dimension
Convenience sampling
Interval scale
What is a form of probability sampling in which a researcher samples entire clusters?
Cluster sampling
Content analysis
Context effects
Continuous dimension
What is a system for quantifying responses to open-ended questions?
Content analysis
Context effects
Continuous dimension
Convenience sampling
What is the concept that traits, attitudes, and preferences can be viewed as a _______?
Finite dimension
Convenience sampling
Continuous dimension
Latent content
What is a convenience sample obtained by using any groups who happen to be convenient?
Convenience sampling
Interval scale
Latent content
Level of measurement
What is the measurement of magnitude having equal intervals between values but no true zero point?
Interval scale
Latent content
Level of measurement
Manifest content
What is the 'hidden meaning' behind a question?
Level of measurement
Latent content
Context
Naysayers
What is the type of scale of measurement used to measure a variable?
Level of measurement
Manifest content
Naysayers
Nominal scale
What is the plain meaning of the words or questions that actually appear on the page?
accidental sampling
Manifest content
Nominal scale
Non probability sampling
The Belmont Report contains three basic ethical principles— respect for ________
beneficence
consent
persons
justice
What is the simplest level of measurement that classifies items into distinct categories?
Abdominal scale
Non probability sampling
Ordinal scale
Nominal scale
What is all people, animals, or objects that have at least one characteristic in common?
Face validity
Real
Not fake
Population
What is a measure of magnitude in which each value is measured in the form of ranks?
Weighing scale
Nominal scale
Ordinal scale
Probability sampling
What is when in doubt about answers to multiple-choice questions, some people always select a response in a certain position?
Position preference
Reliance in luck
Purposive sampling
Dingdong
What are sampling procedures in which subjects are not chosen at random?
Non random sampling
Snowball sampling
Non probability sampling
Position preference
What is selecting samples in such a way that the odds of any subject being selected for the study are known?
Probability sampling
Purposive sampling
Quota sampling
Random number table
What is selecting samples through predetermined quotas that are intended to reflect the makeup of the population?
Quota sampling
Random number table
Random selection
Ratio scale
What is the selection of non-random samples that reflect a specific purpose of the study?
Purposive sampling
Quota sampling
Random number table
Random selection
What is a table of numbers generated by a computer so that every number has an equal chance of being selected?
Random number table
Random selection
Ratio scale
Reliability
What is the tendency for subjects to respond to questions or test items in a specific way?
Response style
Sample of subjects
Sampling
Simple random sampling
What is a tendency to answer questions based on their latent content?
Response bias
Response style
Response set
Sampling
What is an unbiased method for selecting subjects in such a way that each member of the population has an equal opportunity to be selected?
Random selection
Ratio scale
Reliability
Representativeness
What is the extent to which a survey is consistent and repeatable?
Reliability
Representativeness
Response set
Response style
What is the extent to which the sample responses we observe reflect those we would obtain if we could sample the entire population?
Representativeness
Response set
Response style
Sample of subjects
What is a measure of magnitude having equal intervals between values and having an absolute zero point?
Nominal scale
Ordinal Scale
Ratio scale
burger
What is a selected subset of the population of interest?
List of participant
Sampling
Sample of subjects
Snowball sampling
What is deciding who the subjects will be and selecting them?
Simple random sampling
Sampling
Snowball sampling
Stratified random sampling
What is the most basic form of probability sampling whereby a portion of the whole population is selected in an unbiased way?
Simple random sampling
Snowball sampling
Stratified random sampling
Survey research
What is the extent to which a survey actually measures the intended topic?
Sample of subjects
Willingness to answer
Sampling
Validity
What are people who are apt to agree with a question regardless of its manifest content?
susceptible
Yea-sayers
balimbing
At risk
What is a form of nonprobability sampling in which a researcher locates one or a few people who fit the sample criterion?
Survey research
Stratified random sampling
Snowball sampling
Systematic random sampling
What is a useful way of obtaining data about people's opinions, attitudes, preferences, and experiences?
Survey research
Personality Test
Precision matching
What is a variation of random sampling in which a researcher selects every nth person from the population?
Systematic sampling
Random sampling
Systematic random sampling
Sampling sampling
What are the differences among people in their style of responding to questions they are unsure about?
Willingness to guess
Yea-sayers
Nay-sayers
Willingness to answer
What is a form of probability sample obtained by randomly sampling from people in each important population subgroup?
Stratified random sampling
Survey research
Systematic random sampling
Validity
