The principle of confidentiality extends to all of the following EXCEPT the _____
a. researcher c. confederates
b. participants d. research assistants
B
The participants may be asked by the experimenter to refrain from discussing the experiment with others while data collection is still in progress, but this is not required by the APA's ethical principles. However, all individuals associated with the research project (researcher, confederates, and assistants) ARE required to hold the data gathered in strict confidence.
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The approach to test construction in which the item characteristic curve for each individual item is analyzed is called
a. prophecy theory. b. classical test theory. c. item response theory. d. item analysis theory.
Attending college, joining the military for a short stint, and traveling for an extended time before settling down all
a. postpone adulthood. b. allow one's identity to develop and then become fixed at adulthood. c. lead to lower levels of college attendance. d. require that one's identity crisis be resolved in the teenage years.
The median is the best measure of central tendency for ordinal data.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
If the result of an experiment is statistically significant, this means _________
a. the result is reliable b. the result is important c. if we repeat the experiment, we expect the result to be significant again d. the result is reliable and if we repeat the experiment, we expect the result to be significant again