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Doing your research in a laboratory has the advantage that you _____.

stay inside

can easily manipulate the dependent variable

can exercise tight control over extraneous variables

can easily measure the independent variable

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Question 211 pts

According to a statistician a population is correctly defined as _____.

everyone hoping to vote for Mike Huckabee in 2016 (both of them)

every one in the United States

all cases of interest

everyone who participated in a study

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Question 221 pts

Dr. Ophellia O. Gotrocks conducts a memory experiment on snowbirds. All persons considered snowbirds would constitute the _____.

target group

subgroup

sample

population

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Question 231 pts

College students are often used in psychological research because they _____.

are easily accessible

can party like troopers

are above average intelligence and understand what research is all about

represent the general population very well

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Question 241 pts

A major goal of research is to _____ from the small group of subjects included in your experiment to the larger group from which they were drawn.

deduce

specialize

extrapolate

generalize

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Question 251 pts

Which of the following is the main point of the Nuremberg Code?

People should not be subjected to research procedures if information can be acquired in another way.

It served as a basis for current APA Ethical Guidelines.

Participation in research should be required of all psychology

Frivolous research is unethical.

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Question 261 pts

According to the APA Ethical Guidelines, primary responsibility for ensuring that subjects are ethically treated lies with _____.

the Instituional Review Board

the APA

the investigator

the investigator’s assistant who is actually running the study

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Question 271 pts

Which of the following is a question raised when subjects volunteer for an experiment?

What is meant by POTUS?

Do people who volunteer for research differ from those who do not?

Can Hillary Clinton really be POTUS?

Can Jeb Bush really be POTUS? Please answer all!! thank you

Answer 1

1.option 3

A laboratory ensures that the experiment is done under controlled environment as required by the researcher and helps control the interference of extraneous variables.

2.Option 3 all cases of interest

a population is a group of all the individuals which share the common feature being studied.Sample is a representative of this population which is used for studies.

3.Option 4

all peoole considered snowbirds would be the population sharing a common characteristic of interest to the researcher.

4 Option 4. college students are not necessarily a good represention of the general population but are studied as they are easily accessible.

5.Option 4. A major goal of research is to generalize from the small group of subjects included in your experiment to the larger group from which they were drawn..

6.Option 4 frivolous research is unethical, there must be some basos of the expectation of results from a study.

7.Option 3

According to the APA Ethical Guidelines, primary responsibility for ensuring that subjects are ethically treated lies with the investigator or researcher.

Do people who volunteer for research differ from those who do not?