PSYC 515 Quiz Final Considerations

PSYC 515 Quiz: Final Considerations Concepts

1. Being a good consumer of research includes:
2. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses whether a study used appropriate operational definitions for their variables of interest?
3. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses potential confounds in a study?
4. Based on your assigned readings, if you want to be a better consumer of research information, you should:
5. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses whether the sample was of sufficient size?
6. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses random assignment?
7. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses random selection?
8. Which of the following is NOT one of Cook and Campbell (1979) four big validities?
9. If the alpha level is set at .01, this implies:
10. In general, the ____________ the expected effect, the ________________ the required sample size.
11. If a researcher concluded that his new protocol improved employee morale when in fact it did not, what can we say about his conclusion?
12. If a researcher concluded that his new protocol had no effect on employee morale when in fact it improved morale, what can we say about his conclusion?
13. Which of the following statements is true if when using null hypothesis testing, our p value (in the “sig” column of SPSS output) is 0.069?
14. If power is 90%, this implies that you have:
15. If power is set to .80, this implies:
16. If you are unsure of what effect size to use when calculating the sample size, what is considered standard in the eld (per your assigned readings / presentations this week)?
17. Using Cohen’s conventions, an effect size of .50 is interpreted as:
18. Which of the following should begin on a new page?
19. Which of the following statements is true if when using null hypothesis testing, our p value (in the “sig” column of SPSS output) is 0.051?
20. Which of the following statements is true if when using null hypothesis testing, our p value (in the “sig” column of SPSS output) is 0.048?
21. What is the current suggested word count range for an abstract?
22. If a researcher’s statistical test supports the conclusion that their manipulation improved worker morale, what is the likelihood the researcher made the wrong decision if alpha is set to .01?
23. Which of the following can best help a researcher determine if a statistically significant result is clinically meaningful?
24. False report probabilities are rather large in research papers published in our eld. Authors such as Cohen (1962) and Szucs and Loannidis (2017) argue that low power in such studies is primarily due to what?
25. If a researcher’s statistical test supports the conclusion that their manipulation did not improve worker morale, what is the likelihood the researcher made the wrong decision if power is set to 0.70?

Set 2

1. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses whether a study used appropriate operational definitions for their variables of interest?
2. Which of the following is NOT one of Cook and Campbell (1979) four big validities?
3. According to your assigned reading this week, the four validities approach improves:
4. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses random assignment?
5. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses random selection?
6. If a journalist does not include all of the information needed to fully evaluate a claim using the four validities, a consumer should:
7. Which one of Cook and Campbell’s (1979) four big validities best addresses whether the sample was of sufficient size?
8. Being a good consumer of research includes:
9. Which of the following can best help a researcher determine if a statistically significant result is clinically meaningful?
10. If power is 90%, this implies that you have:
11. In general, the ____________ the expected effect, the ________________ the required sample size.
12. If a researcher’s statistical test supports the conclusion that their manipulation improved worker morale, what is the likelihood the researcher made the wrong decision if alpha is set to .01?
13. Which of the following provides an estimate of the effect the variables of interest have on one another regardless of sample size?
14. Using Cohen’s conventions, an effect size of .50 is interpreted as:
15. Which of the following should begin on a new page?
16. Which of the following represents the probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis — typically set at 0.8?
17. If power is set to .80, this implies:
18. If the alpha level is set at .01, this implies:
19. Which of the following statements is true if when using null hypothesis testing, our p value (in the “sig” column of SPSS output) is 0.048?
20. False report probabilities are rather large in research papers published in our eld. Authors such as Cohen (1962) and Szucs and Loannidis (2017) argue that low power in such studies is primarily due to what?
21. Which of the following statements is true if when using null hypothesis testing, our p value (in the “sig” column of SPSS output) is 0.051?
22. Which of the following belong on the Abstract page in a professionally formatted paper?
23. If a researcher’s statistical test supports the conclusion that their manipulation did not improve worker morale, what is the likelihood the researcher made the wrong decision if power is set to 0.70?
24. If a researcher concluded that his new protocol had no effect on employee morale when in fact it improved morale, what can we say about his conclusion?
25. If you are unsure of what effect size to use when calculating the sample size, what is considered standard in the eld (per your assigned readings / presentations this week)?