- The repetition of a study to confirm the results.
- The view that using logic and reason is the way to understand how the world works.
- The intuitive ability to understand the world.Often wrong or even self-contradictory
- Researchers must submit a written proposal to their institution's IRB. What must be included in this proposal? Name 3 things.
- Is coercion of participants ever ok?
- What is the IRB for research on nonhuman animals called? (words, not the abbreviation)
- The official guidelines for behavioral research enforced by the federal government and the APA take the _____ approach to resolving ethical issues.
- APA guidelines regarding research with nonhuman animals state that researchers may subject animals to pain or stress only under 2 conditions. What are they?
- What does it mean when we find evidence of a lot of systematic variance?
- One way to indicate the variability in a set of data is to calculate the range. How is this done?
- Behavioral scientists have become increasingly interested in examining the strength of relationships between particular variables across many studies. The effect sizes from different studies are statistically combined to obtain a general estimate of the strength of the relationship between the variables. This procedure is known as a _____ _____. [see Ch. 2]
- Total variance can be split into two types of variance. What are they?
- If most of the scores are spread out from the mean, will the variance be large or small?
- What are the 3 types of effect size indicators? [see Ch. 11]
- What do we call the sum of the squared deviation scores?
- Several studies have been conducted to assess how research participants feel after finding out they have been deceived. According to these studies, how do most participants feel?
- If most of the scores are tightly clustered around the mean, will the variance be large or small?
- In a cost-benefit analysis of whether or not research should be conducted, what are some potential benefits? Name two (besides practical outcomes).
- When we conclude that findings are statistically significant, what do we mean (in terms of systematic and error variance)?
- _____ is a numerical index of the variability in a set of data.