Scenario Based Questions

Asking them questions about the meaning of each word

Professor Belvedere wants to help her anatomy students memorize the names of different parts of the body. Which of the following techniques will best help her students?

Risk to participants

Students who have faced many obstacles in educational settings were asked to participate in a study that required that they take a test. Many of the students scored poorly on the test. Which of the following ethical issues arises because the students feel that their low test scores are reflective of their abilities, rather than their circumstances?

How many times a person accurately judges the distance of an object

Having them write sentences where each word of the sentence starts with the same letter as one of the parts of the body

serial position effect

Having them write sentences where each word of the sentence starts with the same letter as one of the parts of the body

Hindsight bias

When Dr. Miller sees that the results yield a strong negative correlation coefficient, she tells a colleague that she knew that would be the result all along. Which of the following cognitive biases is Dr. Miller using when she speaks to her colleague?

Correlation

research method used to compare two variables with one another