ACCURATE PLEASE ANSWERS......THANK YOU.. 1) Why is a null hypothesis said to be implied? a) It's always directly tested. b) It can never be directly tested. c) You do not need to test it to know that it is false. d) It is stated in a question form.
2) What use do secondary sources provide? a) finding a scholarly summary of research b) finding further sources of research c) sometimes citing in your literature review d) all of the above
3) Which source allows the researcher to locate articles which cite a specific article? a) Educational Resources Information Center b) Social Sciences Citation Index c) Psychological Abstracts d) Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
4) Two trained professionals observe the behavior of children in a class room. They each rate observed behaviors using the same form and the number of items that were rated the same is calculated. This is an example of which type of reliability? a) parallel reliability b) test retest reliability c) inter rater reliability d) none of the above
5) What is the name of the individual credited with devising levels of measurement in which different measurement outcomes can be classified? a) Binet b) Stevens c) Cattell d) Wechsler
6) Which of the following is NOT a measure of the degree of spread or dispersion of scores? a) standard deviation b) range c) mode d) variance
7) Which measure would be used to determine the average age of college freshmen? a) mean b) mode c) median d) standard deviation 8) In order to determine the critical value, which two pieces of information are needed? a) mean and sample size b) degrees of freedom and level of significance c) mean and standard deviation d) degrees of freedom and variance 9) Which of the following is the potential weakness of survey inter viewing? a) interviewer bias b) minimal sample size c) only one contact is made with subjects d) generalizability with large samples 10) In a study, the correlation coefficient W for and X is 0.25. The correlation coefficient for X and Y is 0.20. The coefficient of determination for X and Z is 0.16. The coefficient of alienation for Y and Z is 0.90. Which pair of variables has the highest amount of variance accounted for? a) X and Y b) X and Z c) Y and Z d) W and X 11) If you square a correlation coefficient and subtract this number from 1.00, what is the result? a) the coefficient of alienation b) the coefficient of determination c) the amount of variance NOT explained by the variance in each variable d) both a and c
12) Dr. Evans was surprised that many of his participants scored much lower than expected on his pretest. When he observed a significant increase in scores on the posttest, he was cautious in attributing the effect to his treatment alone. Which of the following threats to internal validity was Dr. Evans concerned about? a) instrumentation b) selection c) regression d) testing 13) Which section of a proposal describes the subjects used in a study in the greatest detail? a) introduction b) method c) literature review d) implications and limitations 14) Which section of a proposal discusses the possible future uses for the research? a) introduction b) method c) literature review d) implications and limitations 15) In a prepared manuscript, which of the following comes first? a) tables b) title page c) references d) abstract 16_ Which section of a manuscript gives a summary of the contents, including the purpose, a description of the participants, the re sults, and any conclusions being offered? a) introduction b) discussion c) abstract d) method 17) Which section presents the specific statistical procedures used along with the results of these procedures? a) discussion b) method c) results d) introduction 18) What guidelines do most journals in the social and behavioral sciences follow? a) Index Medicus b) American Psychological Association
c) Society of Psychiatric Journals d) Modern Language Association