Exam 6: A: Observational Research: The Many Forms of Discipline in Parents Bag of Tricks

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Describe how today's reality television shows lack ecological validity,though they boast of showing the true lives of the individuals they record.

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Ecological validity is the degree to which a research study or observation mimics the true effects of the psychological experience.Most of the individuals on reality shows are using social desirability to determine their behaviors and are underreporting or not engaging in their typical behaviors for fear that it may make them look bad.The opposite is also true: Some individuals engage in atypical behaviors when being observed to make them look rebellious.Therefore,"reality" television shows are not reality and need to be understood as idealism by the public.

Within a 5-hour observation period during the school day a child was observed engaging in off-task behavior (e.g. ,daydreaming,watching television,playing with pencil,drawing with pencil)54 times for a total of 122 minutes.What would be the most beneficial descriptive statistic to describe these data and why? Calculate the descriptive statistic and report correctly.

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A chocolate company would like to design a research experiment to determine if the taste of their company's candy bar improves if the consumer knows the brand name of the chocolate before rating it.The chocolate company is using in-house researchers and seven different company's chocolate bars in their testing.What is the best research design for this research study?

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An experimental design is necessary for this research question;there must be a control condition and an experimental condition.Additionally,it is also important that double-blind methodology is used,so that the researchers are unaware of what chocolate bar the participants are tasting and the participants are also unaware of what chocolate bar they are tasting so as not to influence the ratings.

Develop a research study that would be appropriate for duration recording and specifically identify your research question.

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Develop a study that uses active deception and explain when active deception is appropriate in research experiments.

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