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Key Terms in Research Ethics

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the principle of full disclosure at the end of an experiment?

a)

At risk

b)

Debriefing

c)

Fraud

d)

Informed consent

2.

What is the concept that all sensate species that feel pain are of equal value and have rights?

a)

Animal rights

b)

Animal welfare

c)

At risk

d)

Debriefing

3.

What is the humane care and treatment of animals?

a)

Animal rights

b)

Animal welfare

c)

At risk

d)

Debriefing

4.

What is the term for an institutional committee that reviews proposed research to safeguard the safety and rights of human participants?

a)

Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)

b)

Institutional review board (IRB)

c)

Minimal risk

d)

Plagiarism

5.

What is the unethical practice of falsifying or fabricating data?

a)

Fraud

b)

Informed consent

c)

Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)

d)

Institutional review board (IRB)

6.

What is the term for an institutional committee that reviews proposed research to safeguard the welfare of animal subjects?

a)

Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)

b)

Institutional review board (IRB)

c)

Minimal risk

d)

Plagiarism

7.

What is a subject's voluntary agreement to participate in a research project after the nature and purpose of the study have been explained?

a)

Fraud

b)

Informed consent

c)

Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)

d)

Institutional review board (IRB)

8.

What is the likelihood of a subject being harmed in some way because of the nature of the research?

a)

At risk

b)

Debriefing

c)

Fraud

d)

Informed consent

9.

What is the subject's odds of being harmed are not increased by the research?

a)

Minimal risk

b)

Plagiarism

c)

Risk/benefit analysis

d)

Cluster sampling

10.

What is a determination, made by an IRB, that any risks to the individual are outweighed by potential benefits?

a)

Risk/benefit analysis

b)

Cluster sampling

c)

Content analysis

d)

Context effects

11.

What is the representation of someone else's ideas, words, or written work as one's own?

a)

Minimal risk

b)

Plagiarism

c)

Risk/benefit analysis

d)

Cluster sampling

12.

What are effects produced by the position of a question?

a)

Context effects

b)

Continuous dimension

c)

Convenience sampling

d)

Interval scale

13.

What is a form of probability sampling in which a researcher samples entire clusters?

a)

Cluster sampling

b)

Content analysis

c)

Context effects

d)

Continuous dimension

14.

What is a system for quantifying responses to open-ended questions?

a)

Content analysis

b)

Context effects

c)

Continuous dimension

d)

Convenience sampling

15.

What is the concept that traits, attitudes, and preferences can be viewed as a _______?

a)

Finite dimension

b)

Convenience sampling

c)

Continuous dimension

d)

Latent content

16.

What is a convenience sample obtained by using any groups who happen to be convenient?

a)

Convenience sampling

b)

Interval scale

c)

Latent content

d)

Level of measurement

17.

What is the measurement of magnitude having equal intervals between values but no true zero point?

a)

Interval scale

b)

Latent content

c)

Level of measurement

d)

Manifest content

18.

What is the 'hidden meaning' behind a question?

a)

Level of measurement

b)

Latent content

c)

Context

d)

Naysayers

19.

What is the type of scale of measurement used to measure a variable?

a)

Level of measurement

b)

Manifest content

c)

Naysayers

d)

Nominal scale

20.

What is the plain meaning of the words or questions that actually appear on the page?

a)

accidental sampling

b)

Manifest content

c)

Nominal scale

d)

Non probability sampling

21.

The Belmont Report contains three basic ethical principles— respect for ________

a)

beneficence

b)

consent

c)

persons

d)

justice

22.

What is the simplest level of measurement that classifies items into distinct categories?

a)

Abdominal scale

b)

Non probability sampling

c)

Ordinal scale

d)

Nominal scale

23.

What is all people, animals, or objects that have at least one characteristic in common?

a)

Face validity

b)

Real

c)

Not fake

d)

Population

24.

What is a measure of magnitude in which each value is measured in the form of ranks?

a)

Weighing scale

b)

Nominal scale

c)

Ordinal scale

d)

Probability sampling

25.

What is when in doubt about answers to multiple-choice questions, some people always select a response in a certain position?

a)

Position preference

b)

Reliance in luck

c)

Purposive sampling

d)

Dingdong

26.

What are sampling procedures in which subjects are not chosen at random?

a)

Non random sampling

b)

Snowball sampling

c)

Non probability sampling

d)

Position preference

27.

What is selecting samples in such a way that the odds of any subject being selected for the study are known?

a)

Probability sampling

b)

Purposive sampling

c)

Quota sampling

d)

Random number table

28.

What is selecting samples through predetermined quotas that are intended to reflect the makeup of the population?

a)

Quota sampling

b)

Random number table

c)

Random selection

d)

Ratio scale

29.

What is the selection of non-random samples that reflect a specific purpose of the study?

a)

Purposive sampling

b)

Quota sampling

c)

Random number table

d)

Random selection

30.

What is a table of numbers generated by a computer so that every number has an equal chance of being selected?

a)

Random number table

b)

Random selection

c)

Ratio scale

d)

Reliability

31.

What is the tendency for subjects to respond to questions or test items in a specific way?

a)

Response style

b)

Sample of subjects

c)

Sampling

d)

Simple random sampling

32.

What is a tendency to answer questions based on their latent content?

a)

Response bias

b)

Response style

c)

Response set

d)

Sampling

33.

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?

a)

Random selection

b)

Ratio scale

c)

Reliability

d)

Representativeness

34.

What is the extent to which a survey is consistent and repeatable?

a)

Reliability

b)

Representativeness

c)

Response set

d)

Response style

35.

What is the extent to which the sample responses we observe reflect those we would obtain if we could sample the entire population?

a)

Representativeness

b)

Response set

c)

Response style

d)

Sample of subjects

36.

What is a measure of magnitude having equal intervals between values and having an absolute zero point?

a)

Nominal scale

b)

Ordinal Scale

c)

Ratio scale

d)

burger

37.

What is a selected subset of the population of interest?

a)

List of participant

b)

Sampling

c)

Sample of subjects

d)

Snowball sampling

38.

What is deciding who the subjects will be and selecting them?

a)

Simple random sampling

b)

Sampling

c)

Snowball sampling

d)

Stratified random sampling

39.

What is the most basic form of probability sampling whereby a portion of the whole population is selected in an unbiased way?

a)

Simple random sampling

b)

Snowball sampling

c)

Stratified random sampling

d)

Survey research

40.

What is the extent to which a survey actually measures the intended topic?

a)

Sample of subjects

b)

Willingness to answer

c)

Sampling

d)

Validity

41.

What are people who are apt to agree with a question regardless of its manifest content?

a)

susceptible

b)

Yea-sayers

c)

balimbing

d)

At risk

42.

What is a form of nonprobability sampling in which a researcher locates one or a few people who fit the sample criterion?

a)

Survey research

b)

Stratified random sampling

c)

Snowball sampling

d)

Systematic random sampling

43.

What is a useful way of obtaining data about people's opinions, attitudes, preferences, and experiences?

a)

Survey research

b)

Facebook

c)

Personality Test

d)

Precision matching

44.

What is a variation of random sampling in which a researcher selects every nth person from the population?

a)

Systematic sampling

b)

Random sampling

c)

Systematic random sampling

d)

Sampling sampling

45.

What are the differences among people in their style of responding to questions they are unsure about?

a)

Willingness to guess

b)

Yea-sayers

c)

Nay-sayers

d)

Willingness to answer

46.

What is a form of probability sample obtained by randomly sampling from people in each important population subgroup?

a)

Stratified random sampling

b)

Survey research

c)

Systematic random sampling

d)

Validity