Exam 26: Writing the Research Report

Direction of the effect of a significant finding is not important.

Articles in popular magazines have been peer reviewed.

The following should be included in the Procedure section:

What should be included in the procedure section?

In general, authorship is reserved for those who make a substantial professional contribution to the study.

The methods section of an article is usually divided into participants, instrumentation, procedures, and design and analysis.

A masked review is which of the following:

The American Psychological Association recommends that an abstract be no longer than:

According to the American Psychological Association, titles of articles should be no more than:

In the thesis or dissertation process, the methods section should not be changed from the time the proposal is accepted through the publication of the thesis or dissertation.

Which of the following is an example of a "guest" author?

Abstracts for articles should be at least 350 words.

Before conducting inferential statistics, the researcher should:

When interpreting results of a comparative study, if the researcher has rejected the null hypothesis at the .01 level and there is a large effect size, the researcher should make the causal connection.

One factor in the integrity of data analysis is selecting the appropriate statistic.

Once statistical significance is determined, the researcher needs to report the effect size and the direction of the effect.

Which of the following is true according to The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010) for a "final" document or manuscript like a dissertation or thesis?

Titles of articles should be around 15-20 words long.

Publishing in a refereed journal is the key to disseminating results.

In regard to misconduct, how is the researcher to know what is acceptable advocacy and what crosses the line?