Ethical Issues in Educational Research

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What ethical issue arises when students feel their low test scores reflect their abilities rather than their circumstances? Options: Anonymity, Right to withdraw, Debriefing, Risk to participants

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Risk to participants

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Dr. Miller believes cell phone usage affects short-term memory ability. He randomly selected 20 male students from his university to participate and gave them a survey. Participants were asked a series of questions about how often they use their cell phone and whether they recalled information about world events. Which of the following accurately identifies the research method used?
Options: Experiment, Case study, Correlation, Meta-analysis

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Correlation

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Which of the following is an operational definition for short-term memory used in this study? Number of hours spent on a cell phone, Number of correct details remembered about world events, Number of participants surveyed in the study, Number of data points in the graph

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Number of correct details remembered about world events

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When Dr. Miller sees that the results yield a strong negative correlation coefficient, she tells a colleague that she knew that would be the result all along. Which cognitive bias is she using?

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Hindsight bias

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The figure represents which model of memory?

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The multi-store model of memory

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Professor Belvedere wants to help her anatomy students memorize the names of different parts of the body. Which technique will best help her students? Options: Teaching them a rhyme for each word, Asking them questions about the meaning of each word, Writing the words in different colors and having the students think about the color that each word is printed in, Having them write sentences where each word of the sentence starts with the same letter as one of the parts of the body

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Asking them questions about the meaning of each word

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How many times a person accurately judges the distance of an object?

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How many times a person accurately judges the distance of an object

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Which research method is being used to assess Skylar’s visuospatial abilities after brain damage from a car accident?

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A case study

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The data set represents the scores of students who took a standardized college placement exam at their own school and later took the same test at a neighboring school. Based on the data, which of the following conclusions can be made?

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Students perform better at their home school.

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Participants scored better when testing in a familiar location. Which of the following statements best explains this result?

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Participants scored better when testing in a familiar location.