Research exam 3

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Quiz on Research exam 3 , created by India Curenton on 10/22/2018.
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Questão 1

Questão
Which of the following is not required for an experimental study?
Responda
  • Random sampling
  • Control group
  • Repeated measures
  • Control of the intervention

Questão 2

Questão
The purpose of control in a study design is to
Responda
  • Establish the credibility of the researcher
  • Highlight design flaws
  • Increase the probability that the results are true to reality
  • Interfere with the validity of the findings

Questão 3

Questão
In evaluating a correlations design as sound, one would look for all but which of the following?
Responda
  • Large sample
  • Low response rate of subjects
  • Sample representing all elements of the population
  • Wide range of values on each measure

Questão 4

Questão
Grades on a multiple choice final exam are an example of which level of measurement?
Responda
  • Ordinal
  • Interval
  • Nominal
  • Ratio

Questão 5

Questão
Which of the following is an example of random measurement error?
Responda
  • Actual measures smaller than True measure
  • Including elements of hope in a measure of self concept
  • Measuring blood sugar immediately after breakfast
  • Punching the wrong key when entering data into the computer

Questão 6

Questão
Reliability is concerned with all but which of the following in relation to measurement?
Responda
  • Accuracy
  • Consistency of measurement
  • Homogeneity
  • Systematic error

Questão 7

Questão
What is the difference between the simple quasi-experimental protest-posttest design and experimental pretest-posttest design?
Responda
  • More groups are used in the experimental design.
  • Subjects are blind to group assignment in the experimental design.
  • There is no direct way to measure change in the quasi-experimental group.
  • In the experimental design, subjects are blinded to their protest scores.

Questão 8

Questão
A type l error occurs when the researcher rejects a null hypothesis when it’s true
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 9

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Type ll error occurs when the researcher regards the null hypothesis as true but it is false
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
The result indicate that there is a significant difference, when in reality there is not
Responda
  • Type l
  • Type ll

Questão 11

Questão
The results indicate there is no significant difference, when in reality there is a difference
Responda
  • Type l
  • Type ll

Questão 12

Questão
Research utilization involves:
Responda
  • Communication of research findings.
  • Observing outcomes from changing practice.
  • Use of knowledge in practice
  • All of the above

Questão 13

Questão
Which of the following has not been identified as a barrier to using research knowledge in nursing practice?
Responda
  • Findings are communicated primarily to other researchers
  • Nursing studies have adequate replication
  • Practitioners often do not value research
  • Researcher originated studies often do not solve pressing clinical problems

Questão 14

Questão
Development of evidence based practice guidelines is a major focus of the
Responda
  • Agency of healthcare research and quality
  • Agency for nursing innovation
  • Best practices forum for healthcare providers
  • International clearinghouse for research findings

Questão 15

Questão
A critical appraisal should be a
Responda
  • Analysis of a study’s internal validity problems
  • Balanced appraisal of a study’s strengths and weaknesses
  • Criticism of researchers faulty decisions
  • Inventory of problems in the study

Questão 16

Questão
When critiquing qualitative research, it is important to
Responda
  • Analyze the researcher adherence to qualitative standards or investigation
  • Avoid comparison of the study with other published studies to prevent bias
  • Emphasize study strengths over weaknesses
  • Use the same approach for both qualitative and quantitative study critiques

Questão 17

Questão
A researcher is intellectually critiquing the publisher study of another researcher. Which of the following questions is not an appropriate question to ask when examining the study?
Responda
  • Can the study be replicated by other researchers?
  • Did the researchers use sound methodology?
  • Was the research problem significant?
  • What preparation did the researcher have to conduct the study?

Questão 18

Questão
Standard deviation is the square root of the variance and provides a measure of the average deviation of a value from the mean.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

Questão
A two tailed test of significance results when the hypothesis is non directional
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
A type ll error occurs when the null hypothesis is accepted when it is not true
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
The range is obtained by subtracting the lowest score from the highest score
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
Mode is average obtained when all numbers are added and divided by the number of variables or numbers
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

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Inferential statistics are designed to address objectives, questions and hypothesis in a study
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 24

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Generalization is the application of information that has been acquired from a specific instance to a general situation.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 25

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The median is the midpoint or score at the exact center of the ungrouped frequency
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

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Measures of central tendency are the end points in the data and represents the average data
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

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Statistical techniques are used to examine, reduce and give meaning to numerical data gathered by a researcher in a study.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 28

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The mean is the numerical value or score that occurs with greatest frequency
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

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Measures of dispersion reflect individual differences
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

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Outliers are those who chose not to participate in a research study because at risks out weighs the benefits
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 31

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Limitations are restrictions or problem in a study that decrease the generalizability of the findings
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 32

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Power is when the researcher manipulates and controls all of the independent variables
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 33

Questão
Another name for descriptive analysis :
Responda
  • Summary
  • Mean
  • Mode
  • Median

Questão 34

Questão
What would bimodel look like?
Responda
  • One curve
  • Two curve
  • Three curve
  • Four curve

Questão 35

Questão
What is the mode?
Responda
  • Least frequent variable/number
  • Most frequent variable/number
  • The middle number

Questão 36

Questão
Scatterplot is one measure of dispersion
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 37

Questão
All data will make it on normal curve
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 38

Questão
What symbol used to indicate level type l error
Responda
  • Power
  • Population
  • alpha
  • Mega

Questão 39

Questão
If you have 0.01 alpha value, what does it mean?
Responda
  • Mean there is 1 in 1000% chance of error
  • Means there is 1 in 100% chance of error
  • 1 in 10% chance of error
  • 1 in 5% chance of error

Questão 40

Questão
What are the 6 steps in data analysis?
Responda
  • Prepare data for analysis
  • Describe the sample
  • Test reliability of measurement methods
  • Conduct exploratory analysis
  • Conduct confirmatory analysis guided by hypothesis
  • Question or objectives
  • Conduct posthoc analysis
  • Reject questions or objectives

Questão 41

Questão
Define the mean
Responda
  • The sum of all scores multiples by the number of scores being summed
  • The sum of scores subtracted by the number of scores being summed
  • The sum of the scores divided by the number of scores being summed

Questão 42

Questão
What is the mode? 5 2 5 1 3 5 3 4
Responda
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
  • 4

Questão 43

Questão
Determine the median- 1 4 7 10 11
Responda
  • 1
  • 7
  • 10
  • 11

Questão 44

Questão
What is the mean? 2 4 6 8 10
Responda
  • 10
  • 4
  • 3
  • 6

Questão 45

Questão
What is the most common used measure tenderness
Responda
  • Mean
  • Mode
  • Median
  • Range

Questão 46

Questão
List at least 1 measure of dispersion (select all that apply)
Responda
  • Range
  • Scatterplot
  • Standard deviation
  • Variance
  • Standardized scores

Questão 47

Questão
How do you calculate the standard deviation?
Responda
  • Mode
  • Range
  • Median
  • Square root of the variance

Questão 48

Questão
An inference is a conclusion or judgment based on evidence
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 49

Questão
Algorithms is self-contained step by step set of operations to be performed
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 50

Questão
Empirical generalization is based on accumulated evidence from many studies
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 51

Questão
When using a power analysis to determine an error, what is the minimum score to detect and error?
Responda
  • 0.1 minimum
  • 0.6 minimum
  • 0.8 minimum
  • 1 minimum

Questão 52

Questão
Define probability and what symbol is used to represent probability?
Responda
  • Probability theory is used to explain the extent of a relationship, the probability that an event will occur in a given situation. Deductive (Top-down) and expressed as a lower case p. Probability is usually expected to be p<0.05
  • Probability explains no relationship
  • Probability is a capital P
  • Unknown answer is given.

Questão 53

Questão
What does tailedness imply?
Responda
  • Lower scores are given
  • An extreme score can occur in either tail of the normal curve. The data stems toward one end of the spectrum. In a one-tailed test, the hypothesis is directional and vice versa in a two tailed test.
  • No answer implies

Questão 54

Questão
A causality is a cause and effect relationship between the variables
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 55

Questão
Independent variable (X) causes Y (a change in the dependent variable)
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 56

Questão
A multicausality has multiple independent variables causing a change in the dependent variable
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 57

Questão
There is a cause and effect relationship between interrelating variables
Responda
  • Causality
  • Multicausality
  • Bias
  • Control

Questão 58

Questão
Slanting of findings away from the truth
Responda
  • Bias
  • Control
  • Causality
  • Multicausality

Questão 59

Questão
Research designs should reduce likelihood of bias and control for it
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 60

Questão
Manipulation is done only in quasi-experimental and experimental designs
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 61

Questão
Implementation of a treatment/intervention & independent variables are controlled
Responda
  • Bias
  • Control
  • Manipulation
  • Causality

Questão 62

Questão
Example of direct measure includes
Responda
  • Pain
  • Depression
  • Coping
  • Oxygen

Questão 63

Questão
Example of indirect measure includes
Responda
  • Oxygen
  • O2 saturation
  • Depression
  • Temperature

Questão 64

Questão
It is the extent to which an instrument reflects the concept being examined
Responda
  • Reliability
  • Validity

Questão 65

Questão
Systematic review is a narrowly focused synthesis of research findings from quantitative studies
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 66

Questão
Multiple primary qualitative studies to produce a narrative about a selected phenomenon
Responda
  • Meta-analysis
  • Meta-summaries
  • Systematic review

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