PSY 301: Chapter 5

If you collect data during a research project and another researcher asks for a copy of your data set, how should you respond?

Provide the data set as long as you can maintain confidentiality of your participants.

Suppose you did a series of three experiments and you find that one of the experiments was flawed. It is okay to leave out the flawed experiment in your final report.

True

Which statement is true about plagiarism?

When you use another's words or ideas you have to provide a citation at that point in your report.

If you violate an underlying assumption of a statistical test used to analyze your data, the author would call this

a questionable trick.

You should publish the results from a series of related experiments

as an integrated series in one article

Which of the activities listed below did the author classify as dirty tricks (highly unethical)?

falsifying credentials

You should keep raw data from a published experiment

for a minimum of about 5 years following publication.

Data can be eliminated from an experiment if

responses fail to meet criteria established prior to the experiment.

A general principle to follow to determine whether an action is scientifically ethical is to ask whether

the action aids the efficient growth of the body of knowledge.

It is ethical to eliminate participants from your data set because

they failed to meet some predetermined overall performance criterion.