BBH 310 Cumulative Final Review

If I wanted to study confidence in Division 1 student athletes, which of the following is an operational definition?

A type of validity that examines agreement between two measures taken at the same time.

Features of an experiment that might inform participants of the purpose of the study.

Which of the following must be true if a researcher wants to withhold information from participants?

When variables are related to each other in non-experimental studies, cause-effect relationships can be established.

Brands of smartphones is an example of what scale of measurement?

When publishing research, researchers must follow authorship guidelines, which is not commonly included in guidelines?

Type of validity that asseses if the content of a measure appears to measure the theoretical defintion of the variable.

If IV: Average Daily Caloric Intake; DV: Weight. What statistical test should be used?

If you are comparing percentages, what scale of measurement would these data need to be?

Probability statements are used for every statistical test and often set to what?

Which of the following is NOT a challenge of doing survey-based research?

This type of ANOVA is used to compare the means of 2 or more DV's with one IV that has 2 or more levels.

All members of a specified group refers to what?

Which of the following best describes the relationship between sample size and confidence interval

Identify the problem: "Does the new software improve your efficiency and productivity?

Which of the following is a characteristic of the scientific approach?

What's missing: What is the impact of exercise versus meditation on anxiety levels.

This section allows the reader to know exactly how a study was conducted and provides key info for study replication

Identify the DV: The impact of cannabis use on sleep quality among cancer patients.

Ethical principle from Belmont report that outlines human research should provide benefits and minimize risk

Type of sampling, convenience technique used to obtain a sample that represents numerical compostion of the population.

Which of the following is NOT a component of basic experiments?

One limitation of laboratory experiments is that they have

This type of study assigns the same subjects to each group.

This type of graphic representation is used to show two scores of individuals to demonstrate how variables are related.

A Type I error occurs when one

If someone does not reject the null hypothesis when the null is false, what type of error have they made?

If a researcher fails to disclose where they have received funding to do their research, they have violated what?

This technique can be used to control for order effects that occur for within-subjects designs.

When the results of a study can be generalized to other subject populations, the study is said to have _____ validity

An unpaired t-test compares the means of two groups that are unrelated.

Which research question below has operationalized variables in it?

After a problem is identified and the literature is reviewed, what is the next step of the research process?

This method is used to systematically analyze and quantify information from written, audio, or video records.

Public health statistics, test score records, and sports statistics are examples of what type of archival research?

Using a survey to examine the impact of the frequency of marijuana use on academic performance would accomplish what?

This type of study assigns experimental and control groups to complete a pretest or no pretest before IV manipulation.

Which of the following is not a common method of disseminating research?

People who try to present themselves in a positive way in their questionnaire responses are demonstrating

This type of reliability examines the scores on the same measure, in the same individuals at 2 different time points.

The research (alternative) hypothesis states that the

Both participants and staff (who interact with participants) are not informed about the experiment/placebo status

This type of study assigns different subjects to each group.

What do researchers do to try to hold as many extraneous variables as they can constant?

This type of survey response option asks participants to indicate how much they feel regarding the question being asked.

This describes research that focuses on non-numerical data such as examining text, video, or audio.

If a researcher manipulates their results to make them fit a preferred hypothesis. This is referred to as what?

A set of procedures used to define and measure your variables is referred to as what?

Wrongly concluding that a new drug is effective when, in fact, it has no impact on the condition is what type of error?

____ scale have an absolute zero point that indicates the absence of variables being measured

Identify the IV: The influence of weight gain on self-esteem among freshman students.

The spread or variability of the data are measured by what?

Extent to which researchers are confident that the causal relationships in a study can't be explained by other factors.

An uncontrolled variable that influences both the independent and dependent variables.

The hypothesis that there is NO significant difference or relationship between a set of observed variables is what?

To study personality development, a researcher studies the same individuals at 11, 14, 21, and 30 years of age. This is:

Observing participants at a distance without being involved but participants are aware you are observing them, is what?

A systematic review is what type of literature source?

A test can be reliable, but not valid.

The observational method that provides a detailed description of one individual is called what?

This tye of study measures the dependent variable only once, after the manipulation of the independent variable.

If an increase in one variable causes a decrease in another, what kind of relationship is this?

A type of validity that examines if two tests that should be highly related to one another are.

This type of statistical test allows researchers to predict the relationship between a DV and more than 1 IV.

In this type of sampling, groups of people are identified & everyone in that group is included in the sample.

To ensure experimental and control groups are equivalent, what do researchers use?

Using a survey to identify if marijuana users will graduate on time would accomplish which goal?

Which of the following is a reason researchers use frequency distributions?

In this type of sampling technique, the chance of any member of a population being chosen is unknown.

Which of the following statements best describes construct validity?

This type of IRB review applies to studies that are considered minimal risk.

When a confounding variable is present in an experiment

Which of the following is a con of systematic observation?

If IV: Age (under 21; over 21); DV: number of alcoholic beverages in the past 2 weeks. What statistical test is used?

The rate of unemployment is an example of what type of scale of measurement?

Which of the following can be used to reduce experimenter effects?

A satisfaction scale from 1 to 5 is an example of what scale of measurement?

Using a survey to understand why marijuana users have lower academic performance would accomplish what goal?

When a sample is not representative of the population and it can threaten external validity, this is called what?