Deciding Whether a Research Study Is Ethical Is

question 83

Multiple Choice

Deciding whether a research study is ethical is

• A) usually done by the researcher alone.
• B) typically done by a review board.
• C) arbitrary because no one has established uniform guidelines for making decisions about whether research is ethical.
• D) determined by whether a study is deemed as being worthy of publication.

Understand Weber’s Law and its application to sensory experience.

Recognize the effect of attention and memory on perception through top-down processing.

Describe the phenomenon of color vision deficiency and its underlying causes.

Understand the basis of color vision and how it varies among individuals.

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Definitions:

School Performance

A measure of how well students achieve or accomplish educational goals and tasks.

Test-Retest Procedures

A method of assessing the reliability of a test by administering the same test to the same subjects at two different points in time and comparing the scores.

Reliability

The consistency and stability of a measurement over multiple occasions or different observers.

Content Validity

The extent to which a test measures all facets of the concept it intends to assess.