Three major ethical concerns of psychological researchers are deception lasting harm to subjects, and:

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1. Three major ethical concerns of psychological researchers are deception, lasting harm to subjects, and:

   A. morality of the under investigation
   B. loss of future research possibilities
   C. falsified results
   D. invasion of privacy

2. Basic ethical guidelines for psychological researchers include:

   A. ensuring that participation is involuntary
   B. harming the subjects when necessary
   C. minimizing confidentiality
   D. providing results and interpretations to participants

3. Basic ethical guidelines for psychological researchers include:

   A. ensuring that participation is involuntary
   B. harming the subjects when necessary
   C. minimizing confidentiality
   D. providing results and interpretations to participants

4. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

   A. 1 & 4
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

5. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

6. What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
   1: Biological.
   2: Medical.
   3: Chemical.
   4: Psychological

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 1 & 4

7. Dr. Jamshed wants to see if person’s IQ changes as they get older. To do this he takes three groups of subjects. Group i is made up of 10 years old, and Group III of 25 years old. Dr. Jamshed tests all three groups of their IQ level. The design of this experiment is called:

   A. longitudinal study
   B. more information is needed to determine the design of the experiment
   C. Gesell’s dome
   D. cross sectional study

8. A between subjects design is less efficient than a within subjects design because ____________?

   A. it has more subjects
   B. it has less validity
   C. it is less reliable
   D. it must deal with difference among subjects
   E. None of these

9. When subjects in an experiment are chosen so that each has an equal chance of being in either the experimental group of the control group, we say that the subjects have been assigned:

   A. alternately
   B. hypothetically
   C. randomly
   D. consecutively

10. To prevent ethical abuse in psychological research, the APA has suggested that:

    A. psychologists must treat all subjects with respect and concern for the subject’s dignity
    B. psychologists must avoid deception with using human subjects
    C. all data collected from a person must be made public
    D. all psychological harm to subjects must be corrected by counseling