1. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is often used as an example of a ____________.
a. groundbreaking study using Facebook
b. study that did not take into account ethical considerations
c. study guided by the ethical guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA)
d. study that breached confidentiality of participants
2. Which is NOT a component of informed consent?
a. the purpose of the research
b. who you are
c. how the participant can get a copy of the records
d. a computer simulation of the data
3. Which of the following information should be provided in an informed consent form for any study involving human participants?
a. the findings of the study
b. the number of participants the study plans to use
c. the procedures involved in the study
d. the names of other participants
4. Sally selects classrooms of first graders to study the effects of teaching styles on math achievement. This is an example of _______________.
a. stratified random sampling
b. cluster sampling
c. proportional sampling
d. sampling error
5. Susan calls every 10th name in the student phone book to ask them to participate in her study. This is an example of _______________ sampling.
a. simple random
b. stratified
c. convenience
d. quota