1. (TCO 5) Which of the following terms is best used to describe works of the mind such as art, books, films, formulae, inventions, music, and processes that are distinct and that are owned or created by a single entity? (Points : 4)
Intellectual property
Intangible property
Prior art
Patented property
None of the above
2. (TCO 5) US-CERT is charged with protecting the national infrastructure of the Internet by coordinating defenses against Internet attacks. Specific responsibilities include _____. (Points : 4)
analyzing and reducing cyber threats
analyzing and reducing cyber vulnerabilities
disseminating cyber threat warnings
incident response activities
All of the above
3. (TCO 1) One approach to acting with _____ is to extend to all people the same respect and consideration that you desire. (Points : 4)
privacy
integrity
efficiency
sufficiency
None of the above
1. Ronda would like to assess the effects of a reading comprehension course on the scores of
students. She gives a group of remedial students a reading comprehension pretest and then
randomly assigns them to either the treatment group or the control group. Shortly after the
treatment, she measures their reading comprehension scores again. What kind of research design did Ronda use?
a. Solomon four-group design
b. Non-equivalent group design
c. Pretest-posttest control-group design
d. Interrupted time-series design
2. Ronda would like to assess the effects of a reading comprehension course on the scores of
students. She gives a group of remedial students a reading comprehension pretest and then
randomly assigns them to either the treatment group or the control group. Shortly after the
treatment, she measures their reading comprehension scores again.
How has Ronda controlled for the selection threat to internal validity?
a. She has randomly assigned participants to groups.
b. She has given a reading comprehension pretest.
c. She has given a reading comprehension posttest.
d. She has administered a treatment.
3. Ronda would like to assess the effects of a reading comprehension course on the scores of students. She gives a group of remedial students a reading comprehension pretest and then randomly assigns them to either the treatment group or the control group. Shortly after the
treatment, she measures their reading comprehension scores again.
Which set of results would result in Ronda being worried about the internal validity threat of testing?
a. The treatment group improves their reading comprehension scores and the control group does not.
b. The control group improves their reading comprehension scores and the treatment group does not.
c. The treatment group and the control group both increase their reading comprehension scores.
d. The reading scores of both the treatment group and the control group stay the same across
time.
1. Ronda would like to assess the effects of a reading comprehension course on the scores of
students. She gives a group of remedial students a reading comprehension pretest and then
randomly assigns them to either the treatment group or the control group. Shortly after the
treatment, she measures their reading comprehension scores again.
Suppose Ronda finds out that participants in the treatment group were helping participants in the control group with their reading comprehension. Ronda should be worried about which threat to internal validity?
a. Selection
b. Experimental mortality
c. Testing
d. Diffusion of treatment
2. Case studies _________ cause-and-effect conclusions; single-case experiments _________ cause-and-effect conclusions.
a. do not allow; do not allow
b. allow; do not allow
c. allow; allow
d. do not allow; allow
3. Renee conducts a single-case experiment in which she changes two variables simultaneously.
Renee has
a. utilized a factorial design.
b. utilized a multiple-groups design.
c. controlled for several threats to internal validity.
d. a confound.
1. A researcher conducts an experiment with Mary, an 8-year-old autistic girl. The researcher first measures how many times Mary hits her head against a wall per day (for a total of 10 days). Then, the researcher begins reinforcing Mary when she engages in productive behaviors (e.g., playing quietly) and does NOT hit her head against a wall. The researcher again measures how many times Mary hits her head against a wall per day (for a total of 10 days). What kind of research design has this researcher used?
a. A-B-A
b. A-B-A-B
c. A-B
d. Interrupted time-series
2. Juan conducts a study with a boy who has been inattentive during class. Juan first measures the number of times per class period the boy looks around the classroom without paying attention to the teacher. Then, Juan administers a treatment whereby the boy is given a reinforcement for each time that he pays attention to the teacher. Then, Juan takes away the reinforcement for a period of time to see if the inattentiveness returns. Finally, Juan eintroduces the reinforcement for attentive behavior. Juan has conducted which kind of experiment.
a. A-B-A design
b. A-B-A-B design
c. interrupted time-series design
d. posttest-only control-group design
3. Chris would like to conduct a study on the effectiveness of a new substance-abuse treatment
program. He has a sample of participants go through the program and he uses as a comparison
group people who did not volunteer for the program but were eligible. Chris has used a(n)
_________ design for his study.
a. interrupted time-series
b. pretest-posttest control-group
c. nonequivalent group
d. Solomon four-group
1. If you use computer equipment in your study, you should label the second section of your method section
a. apparatus.
b. materials.
c. equipment.
d. testing instruments.
2. Pedro would like to see an explanation of the experimental manipulations in the manuscript he is reading. Pedro should turn to the ________ section.
a. participants
b. materials
c. procedure
d. apparatus
3. Marissa is reading about how the results of the current study relate to past research on the topic. Based on this information, you suspect that she is reading the __________ section of an APA-format paper.
a. results
b. discussion
c. method
d. introduction
