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Dr. Ickes insists that all of his research assistants know how to be producers of research. All of the following relate to this requirement EXCEPT:

Blair is writing her first empirical journal article. Although she thinks she knows why she found the results she did, she also wants to mention some alternative explanations for her findings. In which section will she mention these alternative explanations?

SCENARIO: Dr. Kushner is planning on conducting a study next semester. He is curious as to whether sleep deprivation is associated with poorer cognitive performance. For example, if you sleep poorly the night before a big exam, will you do worse? Dr. Kushner is especially curious about selective sleep deprivation, where people are kept from entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor brain waves, he plans to let participants sleep until they enter REM sleep and then wake them. After the participants are awake for one minute, Dr. Kushner plans to let them return to sleep. As they enter REM sleep again, he will wake them again and follow the same procedure. He plans to do this through the entire eight-hour sleep session. The following morning, participants will be asked to take a sample SAT test. QUESTION:  Dr. Kushner is deciding whether he needs to give participants a reason for waking them up several times during the night. He knows that he cannot tell them the real reason, but he is unsure whether he should deceive them (give them a false reason why he is waking them up) or provide them with no cover story at all. Which of the following issues should be considered most heavily when deciding whether to use deception?

When examining the statistical validity of a frequency claim, one should look for the:

Naomi is studying the relationship between popularity and academic success for her research methods project. To do this, she has elementary school students rate how popular each member of their class is. She then uses this information to rank the students on popularity (e.g., John is the most popular, Vanessa is the second-most popular). Which of the following best describes this variable?

Which of the following is a benefit of the peer-review process?

If Sam finds that his data match his theory, which of the following statements should he make?

Tanya is interested in examining the relationship between perfectionism and burnout. She locates 70 studies that have examined this relationship, combines the results of all 70 studies and then calculates an overall effect size to describe the relationship. Her research can be described as a:

Which of the following allow us to make strong predictions using association claims?

In psychology, we typically use a significance cutoff value of .05 to determine statistical significance. If we find that our p-value for a correlation is equal to .03, we would state: