What Was the "Critical Incidents" Technique

question 39

Multiple Choice

What was the "critical incidents" technique?

• A)a survey procedure used to elicit examples of unethical conduct by psychologists
• B)a 10-point scale measuring the severity of an ethical infraction
• C)a procedure for identifying studies that were ethically questionable but "critical" for advancing psychological science
• D)a procedure whereby psychologists were sent a set of 50 experiments and asked to criticize them on ethical grounds

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Definitions:

Categorical Data

Categorical data refers to variables that represent categories or groups, such as gender or eye color, which can be used in statistical analysis to compare different groups.

Confidence Intervals

A range of values, derived from a data set, used to estimate the uncertainty surrounding an estimated parameter.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used for hypothesis testing and constructing confidence intervals.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, commonly denoted as alpha.