Chapter 3 Self-Grading Quizzes

. What is the purpose of research ethics principles?

To ensure projects are methodologically sound

To keep researchers from speaking out on issues that concern them

To protect individuals and society from potential harm

To encourage more people to get involved in research

. At what stage in the research process should you begin to consider ethical issues?

Carrying out data collection

Writing up research results

Selection of the research topics

Analyzing the data

. While ______ seeks to advance knowledge purely for knowledge's sake, social relevance is often considered in the evaluation of social science research.

qualitative research

normative research

quantitative research

basic research

. ______ is not one of the three core ethical principles in the TCPS 2.

Respect for persons

Respect for corporations

Concern for welfare

Justice

. One of the core parts of ethical research is informed consent, which means that:

participants are debriefed after the research is over about its real subject

participants agree to participate freely and with a real understanding of what participation means

participants are free to withdraw at any time

participants are not asked to do anything that might harm them

. If a researcher collects data from a participant without ever collecting that participant's name, then that data is:

anonymous

confidential

accessible

relevant

. If data is manipulated in order to produce statistically significant results, which are more likely to be published, this is called:

plagiarism

publication bias

p-hacking

parsimony

. Pre-registration, the process of publicly recording the hypotheses of a quantitative research project before beginning to collect or analyze data, is designed to address what challenge?

confidentiality

informed consent

publication bias

p-hacking

. Large quantities of data harvested from social media and available for analysis is referred to as:

social data

quantitative data

big data

valid data

. What stage of the research project is free from ethical concerns?

data analysis

data collection

writing up results

none

. When conducting a research project, researchers should consider risks to participants, but not to the research team.

True

False

. The TCPS 2 states that partial disclosure or deception may sometimes be justified.

True

False

. Secondary data is data collected by other researchers that you can reuse in a new project.

True

False

. Universities do not ask researchers to demonstrate that their research is ethical.

True

False

. A research participant has the right to stop participating at any time.

True

False

. The principle of 'do not harm' has no relevance to social research.

True

False

. Research with indigenous communities follows identical ethical guidelines to other social research.

True

False

. Plagiarism is unrelated to issues of research ethics.

True

False

. Most problems of research ethics are the result of deliberate malpractice.

True

False

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