Researchers at the University of Manitoba Assessed Attitudes Toward Deception

question 102

Multiple Choice

Researchers at the University of Manitoba assessed attitudes toward deception research in 1970 and again in 1990 (Sharpe,Adair & Roese,1992) .The results show that

• A) participants who were deceived were less likely to agree that deception research was necessary.
• B) although students did not react negatively to the deception experiments they did show a greater distrust of psychologists.
• C) attitudes toward deception research were less favourable in the more recent (1990) survey.
• D) attitudes toward deception research were more favourable in the more recent (1990) survey.
• E) respondents did not feel negatively about their experiences in either time period.

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Definitions:

Type I Errors

Mistakes made by falsely rejecting the null hypothesis when it is in fact true; also known as false positives.

Familywise Error

The overall likelihood that a Type I error (incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis) will occur across a set of related hypotheses.

Type I Error

Error that occurs when the null hypothesis is true but the decision is made to reject the null hypothesis.

Probability

Likelihood of occurrence of a particular outcome of an event given all possible outcomes.