The Ethical Principles Developed by Major Psychological Organizations Dictate That

question 21

Multiple Choice

The ethical principles developed by major psychological organizations dictate that potential research participants should be told enough about the experiment to

• A)make inaccurate guesses about its true purpose.
• B)accurately perceive demand characteristics.
• C)be able to give their informed consent.
• D)detect the researcher's hidden values.

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A random variable is a variable whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Success Probability

The likelihood or chance of a particular event or outcome happening, often expressed in terms of percentage or decimal.

Poisson Random Variable

A statistical measure that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events happen with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Specified Interval

A defined range of values within which a particular parameter or statistic is expected to lie.