Which of the Following Is an Ethical Concern in Social

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an ethical concern in social psychological research?

• A) It is often difficult to debrief participants in a study.
• B) Undoing the effects of a plausible cover story can be difficult.
• C) Participants are sometimes exposed to upsetting situations.
• D) Participants must sometimes be discouraged from withdrawing prematurely from the experiment.
• E) People do not have a choice about the experimental condition to which they are assigned.

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Definitions:

SST

SST stands for Sum of Squares Total, a term used in statistics to describe the total variation within a dataset.

Determination

In the context of statistical analysis, often refers to the degree of variance in observations explained by the model, usually in the form of the coefficient of determination (R-squared).

Estimated Regression Equation

An equation that estimates the relationship between dependent and independent variables in a regression model.

SST

Total Sum of Squares; a measure that quantifies the total variance in the dependent variable that is to be explained by the independent variable(s) in a model.