Resource Quiz 2

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A confidence level at the 95% level indicates that:

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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.

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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:

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

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Research studies to determine the effectiveness of therapy show that:

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

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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?

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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:

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What does a correlation study determine?

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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?

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The most effective of these methods would be:

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Which of these is a key purpose of program evaluation?

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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?

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

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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:

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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:

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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?

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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?

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

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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?

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

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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?

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

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

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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?

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What is determined in a correlational study?

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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?

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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:

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

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Which of these describes external validity?

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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:

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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?

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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?

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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?

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

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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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 )

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

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

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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.

Masters Rehabilitation Counseling Quiz sobre Resource Quiz 2, criado por Jamie Weiland em 12-03-2017.

Resource Quiz 2

A confidence level at the 95% level indicates that:

An example of a Random Positive Negative Exact( 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.

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:

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

Research studies to determine the effectiveness of therapy show that:

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

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

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:

What does a correlation study determine?

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

The most effective of these methods would be:

Which of these is a key purpose of program evaluation?

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?

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

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:

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:

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

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

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

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?

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.