Kendra Serves on a Committee Whose Job Is to Review

question 197

Multiple Choice

Kendra serves on a committee whose job is to review proposed psychology studies. The committee refuses to approve one study because they feel the possible benefit from the research is too little given the potential risk to the participants. Kendra's committee is most accurately called an _________________.

• A) ethics commission
• B) inquisition
• C) academic safety advisory committee
• D) institutional review board

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Definitions:

Probability Distribution

A math function tasked with computing the odds of different potential outcomes during an experiment.

Multiple Regression Model

A statistical technique that uses several explanatory variables to predict the outcome of a response variable.

Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom refer to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a system without violating any constraint.

Sum of Squares

A statistical measure of the dispersion of observation values given by the sum of the squared differences from the mean.