What Are the Purposes of Completing a Pilot Study

question 2

Multiple Choice

What are the purposes of completing a pilot study?

• A)It provides nominal and ordinal data with which the researcher can construct better instruments.
• B)It helps identify problems the researcher might encounter while collecting data.
• C)It justifies the existence of a research gap.
• D)It gives the researcher preliminary data to present the institutional review board in order to obtain permission to conduct research.
• E)It provides an idea of the time lines of the proposed study, including instrument-completion and subject recruitment.

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Definitions:

Cingulotomy

A neurosurgical procedure that targets the cingulate gyrus to treat certain mental disorders, such as severe depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Bilateral Lobotomy

A surgical procedure that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal lobe, historically used to treat mental illness with often debilitating results.

Time Outs

A disciplinary technique used to remove an individual from an environment for a period of time as a consequence for unacceptable behavior, with the goal of decreasing that behavior.

Behavior Modification

The use of empirically demonstrated behavior change techniques to improve behavior, such as altering an individual's behaviors and reactions to stimuli.