EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE

•Exam 2 will cover Chapters 4, 6, & APA format that was covered in class (from Chapter 16) as well as information discussed in lecture. The exam will consist of approximately 30-40 multiple-choice questions and 2-3 short answer questions. This review guide is only intended to help you focus on specific material. Some information that does not appear on this sheet may still appear on the exam! In preparation for the exam you need to review the text, homework assignments, and your lecture notes.

•The main topics that you should review for the exam are listed below:

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Research Ethics
Evolution of ethics and historical highlights
Belmont Report (good one for a short answer question)
Informed consent
Tuskegee Experiment
The Milgram Study
Pros and cons of deception
Debriefing
Institutional Review Boards (IRB)
Confidentiality vs. Anonymity
APA ethical standards
Fraud in Science
Plagiarism
Validity (e.g., concurrent, predictive, etc.)
Threats to Internal Validity
Threats to External Validity
Confounding Variables
Operational Definitions (good one for a short answer)
Sections of a research paper (e.g., abstract, introduction, etc.)
Know how to organize references
Biased language