Dr. Bassuk is conducting a pilot study for his newest research project. During this pilot study, he repeatedly stops the participants and interviews them. He asks them to report what they were thinking during each portion of the study.
This group of participants in the pilot study can also be called a
a. introspective group
b. sacrifice group
c. carry-over group
d. concurrent group
A ______ statistic follows a known sampling distribution and is used in significance testing.
a. parameter
b. standard
c. test
d. point
What is the best definition of an institutional review board?
a) a group of people who make decisions regarding an institution's human resources
b) a group of people found in most public institutions and private agencies who render a judgment as to whether experiments carried out in their facilities are free from risk
c) a group of people who review the literature produced by researchers in their institution in order to keep an accounting of it
d) a group of people representing many different institutions who meet to review the current literature in their respective fields
Qualitative research can be defined by which of the following?
a) directly tests the quality of a cause and effect relationship
b) examines human behavior in the contexts in which they occur
c) typically leads to high-quality numeric data
d) one of the oldest formalized types of research used in the social and behavioral sciences
A small town decides to ban cell phone texting while driving.
Before putting the law into effect, officials measure the amount of cell phone use among drivers by placing observers at a busy intersection and recording the percentage of drivers using phones. They do this over 6 consecutive one-week intervals, each week being the middle week of a month (i.e., six months of pretesting). Right after the law is passed, officials repeat the observational study for another six months. Which of the following is true about the design of this study?
a. it is an interrupted time series design
b. it is an example of a nonequivalent control group design
c. without a control group, there is no way to evaluate trends with this design
d. because there are multiple observations this would qualify as a regression discontinuity design
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