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Question 1 of 43

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A confidence level at the 95% level indicates that:

Select one of the following:

  • There is a 95/100 probability clients will get worse

  • 95 out of every 100 subjects will improve

  • The alpha level has been set at .05

  • The null hypothesis will be rejected five out of every 100 times

Explanation

Question 2 of 43

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

An example of a ( Random, Positive, Negative, Exact ) correlation would be that of a student who scored high on a vocational test for auto mechanics and is doing well in a class on auto mechanics.

Explanation

Question 3 of 43

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A professor from the Fiji Islands has sent you some sample data on students’ attitudes about sexually transmitted diseases. You can make no assumptions about whether the population data would be normally distributed or not. Therefore, you need to use:

Select one of the following:

  • Nothing can be done until you receive this information

  • Intern analysis

  • Parametric statistics

  • Non-parametric statistics

Explanation

Question 4 of 43

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All of the following are true about the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient correlation except:

Select one of the following:

  • The correlation is most useful for nominal data

  • The magnitude of this correlation is related to the variability of the distributions that are being correlated

  • Correlation coefficients should not be explained in terms of percentage of 1 to 1 correlation

  • Correlation does not mean causation

Explanation

Question 5 of 43

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Research studies to determine the effectiveness of therapy show that:

Select one of the following:

  • Adults’ neuroses are more likely to diminish with therapy than without therapy

  • The less the therapist and the client have in common, the more successful the treatment

  • Client attributes are better forecasters of successful results of therapy then therapist attributes

  • Client attributes cannot be used as predictors of successful therapy results

Explanation

Question 6 of 43

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Your experimental treatment for shyness had no effect on your group. What would you expect your F-ratio to be?

Select one of the following:

  • 0.00

  • 0.50

  • 1.00

  • -1.00

Explanation

Question 7 of 43

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You are researching which “theoretical orientation” reduces the dropout rate in groups you are running. Which is the dependent variable in this study?

Select one of the following:

  • The dropout rate

  • The theoretical orientation

  • The type of group

  • The methods of research

Explanation

Question 8 of 43

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You want to see how college student’s feelings have changed about bisexuality. You pay 30 students to act as confederates saying they are bisexual and pair them up with 30 other students from the college. As a researcher, ethics demand:

Select one of the following:

  • That you talk with the students and let them withdraw if they revealed attitudes that might have been problematic

  • That you be reported to the appropriate professional ethical standards committee

  • That you need not do anything

  • That you be reported to the university’s ethics committee, and encourage the students to complete the study

Explanation

Question 9 of 43

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What does a correlation study determine?

Select one of the following:

  • The effects occurrences

  • Cause-effect

  • The relationship between two occurrences

  • The means between to variables

Explanation

Question 10 of 43

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When assessing the effects on a criterion measure, which tool is best for determining the relative power of several predictors affecting the criterion measure?

Select one of the following:

  • Multiple regression

  • Analysis of variance

  • Multiple correlation

  • Coefficient ratio

Explanation

Question 11 of 43

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The most effective of these methods would be:

Select one of the following:

  • Close observation

  • Experimental research

  • Case study

  • Casting runes

Explanation

Question 12 of 43

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Which of these is a key purpose of program evaluation?

Select one of the following:

  • To further effective therapy

  • To set out accountability goals for patients

  • To determine organizational accountability

  • To ensure effective outcome of the program

Explanation

Question 13 of 43

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A research study conducted while the country is at war shows that mothers of soldiers are more likely than mothers of civilians to have various disorders. What is the greatest threat to the study’s internal validity?

Select one of the following:

  • Hawthorne effect

  • History

  • Quasi-experimental bias

  • Maturation

Explanation

Question 14 of 43

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If a researcher wants to control the external validity, the experimental populations should have qualities related to:

Select one of the following:

  • The control group

  • The target population

  • Longitudinal study

  • A random assignment

Explanation

Question 15 of 43

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A real threat to external validity happens when individuals in a study act differently because they know they are being observed in a study. This happens frequently, and is known as the:

Select one of the following:

  • Hawthorne effect

  • Halo effect

  • Rosenthal effect

  • Solomon effect

Explanation

Question 16 of 43

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Ms. Hamilton gives a standard test to all fifth graders at Lakemont Elementary School. The standard deviation of this standard test is 10. This would indicate that:

Select one of the following:

  • The median is 80

  • Two-thirds of the scores fall between 90 and 110

  • The mean must be 110

  • One-third of the scores fall between 80 and 100.

Explanation

Question 17 of 43

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If a mental-health therapist wanted to learn about current research in the counseling field, what publication should he or she look in?

Select one of the following:

  • Journal of Counseling Psychology

  • Psychological Research Quarterly

  • APT Journal

  • Journal of American Psychology

Explanation

Question 18 of 43

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Here are the scores of your peers on the examination: 80, 85, 120, l50, l50, l60, l65. What is the median of this distribution?

Select one of the following:

  • 165

  • 120

  • 150

  • 145.50

  • 300

Explanation

Question 19 of 43

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Name the 3 main journals that vocational rehabilitation professional use in regards to research:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

  • Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling

  • Journal of Rehabilitation

  • International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

  • Journal of Vocational Behavior

Explanation

Question 20 of 43

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You want to examine the effects of more than one independent variable on a dependent variable. When you allow more than one factor to vary, you would have to call this what type of experimental design?

Select one of the following:

  • Double-blind study

  • Multiple analysis

  • Factorial designs

  • Trait/factor design

Explanation

Question 21 of 43

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All of the following would use an ex post facto research format except:

Select one of the following:

  • Blind students have higher sensory perception than seeing students

  • Speech therapist who practice on children who have hearing loss become more proficient than those who do not practice on deaf children

  • Kids from low-income families experiment with drugs more frequently than kids from higher-income families.

  • Children with high IQ scores are more motivated then children with low IQ scores

Explanation

Question 22 of 43

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A researcher wants to see if elementary-school age males and females prefer corn dogs or hamburgers for lunch in the cafeteria. The researcher’s null hypothesis says that there is no significance difference in the proportion of male and female students who prefer hot dog and pizza. The researcher should use what statistical method for testing the null hypothesis?

Select one of the following:

  • Chi square

  • Multiple regression

  • F-test

  • T-test

Explanation

Question 23 of 43

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If you want to obtain control over an extraneous variable in an experiment, you could do this by:

Select one of the following:

  • Using a double-blind study

  • Duplicating the study

  • Using multiple researchers

  • Making all conditions except the independent variable exactly the same

Explanation

Question 24 of 43

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Which of these statements is most in line with Allport’s perspective:

Select one of the following:

  • Because individuals have their own agendas and motivations, therapists should discount animal research as a predictor of human behavior.

  • Researchers should apply human-behavior studies to counterpart research in animal behavior

  • Researchers should study abnormal human behavior in order to develop normal behavioral parameters

  • Researchers should make controlled adjustments when applying animal-behavior research to human behavior

Explanation

Question 25 of 43

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In an experiment, a doctoral candidate has determined that the rate of copulation in a large population of laboratory rats fluctuates with the phases of the moon. He concludes that the gravitational pull of the moon influences the rat’s sexual behavior. He has committed what error?

Select one of the following:

  • He incorrectly inferred causation from correlation

  • He has overlooked the Hawthorne effect

  • He failed to measure the sexual activity of the rats

  • He incorrectly inferred correlation from causation

Explanation

Question 26 of 43

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What is determined in a correlational study?

Select one of the following:

  • The correlation between independent and dependent variables

  • Antecedent causes of observable effects

  • The relationship between two events

  • Observer influence on observed phenomena

Explanation

Question 27 of 43

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An experiment looks at the effects of a particular study method on student performance, and only the experimenter knows which method is under investigation. The procedure she would be using is called?

Select one of the following:

  • Non-blind

  • Double-blind

  • Single-blind

  • Relational sampling

Explanation

Question 28 of 43

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Your client is a male who has come to college from a small farming community in the Midwest. He is homesick and is not adjusting to college life. You have tried a number of therapies to help your client adjust, but nothing seems to help. You finally send your client to spend time swimming with the dolphins and find that in just eight months he has adjusted to college life. You come to the conclusion that swimming with dolphins will facilitate college adjustment. There might be some concern regarding the validity of your findings because:

Select one of the following:

  • Males take longer to adjust to change than females

  • Animals are known to have a calming effect on humans

  • Animals and homesickness have a positive correlation

  • Just the passage of time could be responsible for his adjustment

Explanation

Question 29 of 43

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When someone mentions that a particular statistical test has “power,” you should think this relates to:

Select one of the following:

  • Establishing an operational null hypothesis

  • Correctly verifying a false null hypothesis

  • Establishing an operational hypothesis

  • Positively rejecting a false null hypothesis

Explanation

Question 30 of 43

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Which of these describes external validity?

Select one of the following:

  • Specific value of results

  • Generalized applicability of results

  • The causal relationship between changes in the independent and dependent variables

  • Statistically consistent results

Explanation

Question 31 of 43

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If you were planning to use the survey method in a research project you were conducting, your major concern regarding your choice of method would be:

Select one of the following:

  • Determining what group to question

  • How to maintain confidentiality

  • Making the survey short enough to capture off the information you need

  • Obtaining a representative sample of subjects to be questioned

Explanation

Question 32 of 43

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If you have designed a test that measures military leadership, and you want to explore whether there are other constructs that are responsible for military leadership, you would probably want to use which of the following techniques?

Select one of the following:

  • Factor Analysis

  • Pearson Product Moment Correlation

  • Multi-trait

  • Z-score

Explanation

Question 33 of 43

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Which of the following types of validity best described the condition of a sample from a larger population as being a true representation of that larger population?

Select one of the following:

  • External congruence

  • Content validity

  • Structural reliability

  • Equalization validity

Explanation

Question 34 of 43

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After a seminar to improve workers performance, you are provided with scores from 30 workers. In order to compare the obtained mean score to the national mean, what statistical technique might you use?

Select one of the following:

  • Standard deviation

  • T-test for independent samples

  • T-test for single sample

  • Correlation

Explanation

Question 35 of 43

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You have divided your workers into three groups: pre-professional, paraprofessional, and professional. This scheme is what type of measurement?

Select one of the following:

  • Ratio

  • Interval

  • Nominal

  • Ordinal

Explanation

Question 36 of 43

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The applied statistical analysis software program that is used to compute quantitative data is called?

Select one of the following:

  • SCRC

  • Predective Analytics Software (PASW) formall known as SPSS

  • Indesign

  • Ratio Data statistics

Explanation

Question 37 of 43

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You are working as a rehabilitation counselor within the private sector, your supervisor ask you to research the relationship between blacks and whites with TBI and limb amputation. You locate 17 articles that fit. What type of research methodology would be the strongest to use.

Select one of the following:

  • ANOVA

  • MANOVA

  • Meta-Analysis

  • Multi-analysis

Explanation

Question 38 of 43

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Which of the following is the term used to define the condition of all individuals having an equal probability of being chosen?

Select one of the following:

  • Sample collection

  • Sample population

  • Random selection

  • Random population

Explanation

Question 39 of 43

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A graduate student wanted to conduct a study in Africia on the effects of new disabilty legislation on children between the age of 9 and 16 in Kenya the most effective research design would be

Select one of the following:

  • Qualitative

  • Mixed Method

  • Quantitative

  • Ex Post Facto

  • International

Explanation

Question 40 of 43

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

In regards to research there are eight stages. Place the stages of research (below) in the correct order:

Research Problem ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )

Data Analysis ( 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )

Definitions ( 3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 )

Literature Review ( 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 )

Hypotheses or Question ( 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 6, 7 )

Sample ( 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 )

Instrumentation ( 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 )

Procedures/Design ( 8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 )

Explanation

Question 41 of 43

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

is research that describes existing conditions without analysis of relationships among variables.

Explanation

Question 42 of 43

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

is a prediction, a statement of what specific results or outcomes are expected to occur

Explanation

Question 43 of 43

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

should shed light on what is already known about the problem and should indicate logically why the proposed study would result in an extension of this prior knowledge.

Explanation

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