What are inferential statistics and how do they differ from descriptive statistics?
What will be an ideal response?
What is one of the criteria that an IRB uses to review research?
a. minimal risk to nonhuman subjects
b. minimal risk to human participants
c. guaranteed discrimination in the selection process
d. guaranteed access to participant names and data
The branch of philosophy that holds that ideas evolve through the process of natural selection is _______________.
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Identify when it would be appropriate to use a parametric versus a nonparametric test.
What will be an ideal response?
One responsibility of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure that ____.
a. research reports are honest and accurate
b. nonhuman subjects will be kept safe in research
c. human participants will be kept safe in research
d. human participants will not be deceived in research
A(n) _______________ is the result of a systematic process that leads to a specific set of research-based recommendations for practice that usually includes some estimates of how strong the evidence is for each recommendation.
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Explain how Type I and Type II errors are related to false alarms and misses.
What will be an ideal response?
A researcher tells stories at a party describing the behavior of individual participants in his or her research study. Which ethical principle is being compromised?
a. no harm
b. informed consent
c. confidentiality
d. anonymity
A(n) _______________ focuses on a specific question or issue and uses specific preplanned methods to identify, select, assess, and summarize the findings of multiple research studies.
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Explain how a one-tailed hypothesis differs from a two-tailed hypothesis.
What will be an ideal response?