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Where are Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) located and what is their purpose?

When it comes to measuring variables, which of the following best describes the meaning of validity?

A researcher administered a new personality test to a group of participants.  Two weeks later, he gave the same participants the same test and compared their scores from the first time they took the test to the second. He was clearly interested in the test’s _____.

Which of the following characterizes the ethical principle of beneficence?

Which of the following best describes information from a research participant that is anonymous?

The standard deviation refers to the _____.

A survey question for probationers is as follows: In what county were you born? (circle one)             -Hartford                  -Fairfield             -New Haven             -Litchfield                  -Middlessex              -New London             -Tolland                     -Windham    If the variable being measured by this item is County of Birth, then each county is a(n) _____ of the variable.

If researchers are conducting a study that involves naturalistic observation, simply observing participants in a public setting, they do not need to obtain informed consent

What is the INDEPENDENT variable(s) in the following hypothesis? “Persons who experience economic deprivation during early childhood will place a higher priority on economic self-interest later in life than will people who did not experience economic deprivation during early childhood.”

A researcher is studying the lifestyle of people who are on probation.  She gives them a questionnaire about their daily habits (both healthy and unhealthy) while they sit in the waiting room of probation department offices.  When a participant returns his completed survey to her, she notices that he has indicated that he has been spending his days smoking marijuana and seeking out ways to obtain prescription painkillers.  This is an obvious violation of the conditions of his probation and the law.  The researcher___