WorksheetsHES 240 - Midterm Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
A researcher has decided to use a survey to understand adults' spending habits on new clothes. One of her questions is decreasing the validity of the data she is getting. What characteristic is most likely found in this question?
A. Ambiguity
B. Middle Position
C. Double-Barrel
D. All of the above
E. A & C only
You want to find the causal reason as to why people with higher grip strength tend to live longer. What type of quantitative study would you conduct?
Randomized controlled trial
Retrospective case-control study
Prospective cohort study
Content analysis
A researcher wants to establish validity for a new measure of blood iron levels. The researcher compares the results of the new measure with the results of the current best method of measuring blood iron. By doing this, the researcher is examining what type of validity?
Discriminant
External
Internal
Criterion
Mo is a PhD student who has gained an interest in the recent dance trends on TikTok. In particular, Mo is interested in understanding how influencers manipulate emotions through music to motivate viewers to perform the respective dance. What type of research is best to help Mo further understand this concept?
Quasi-experiment - cohort study
Quasi-experiment - Static group comparison
Content analysis - intensity analysis
Content analysis - direction analysis
None of the above
Bryn is conducting a prospective cohort study, but the intervention requires all participants to provide multiple muscle biopsies throughout a 6-month period. Which of the following would most likely be an issue in this study?
Expectancy effect
Selection bias
Maturation
Sampling error
Physical harm
Vlad measured participants' self-efficacy using a 20-item questionnaire two times under the same conditions. What type of reliability is Vlad likely to report?
Internal consistency
Test-retest reliability
Inter-rater reliability
Internal validity
Which of the following is an example of spin in research?
A researcher gets an article rejected by a journal because the results do not achieve statistical significance
A researcher publishes the same article in two different journals
A researcher is found to have fabricated portions of the data in a research study
A researcher was funded by a for-profit organization
You have just conducted a cohort study that found a correlation between tv watching and Alzheimer's. You have presented these results at a national conference. What should you NOT do?
Try and reproduce your findings
Aim to achieve collective consensus on the topic
Conclude that watching tv causes Alzheimer's
You should do all of the above
You are interested in finding all the peer-reviewed evidence available on the relationship between walking and spiritual well-being. What would be the best way to search for this information?
walk AND (spiritual well-being)
(walk*) OR spiritual well-being
walk* AND "spiritual well-being"
walking OR NEAR/2 well-being
You are interested in examining the effectiveness of a new drug for reducing migraine frequency. The best sampling method to use in this study is:
Simple random sampling
Quota sampling
Snowball sampling
Purposeful sampling
Convenience sampling
