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As part of the informed consent process, a researcher must:

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As part of the informed consent process, a researcher must:

All of these are correct.

What organizations act as gatekeepers and oversee the research conducted at most universities?

Institutional Review Boards (IRB)

is when no one, including the researcher, can connect a participant's responses with their identity.

Which of the following examples best shows when a researcher does NOT follow the rule of nonmaleficence?

A researcher inflicted psychological harm on the participants.

Which of the following could be considered a vulnerable population?

All of these are correct

When researchers ensure that their findings will represent and apply to other people and situations, they are attempting to increase the study's .

Generalizability

Generally, when increases, the overall confidence in the sample also increases.

Picking every nth name from a list of potential participants is an example of which type of sampling method?

Systematic Sample

Let's say a researcher first identifies subcategories of a population (e.g., grade level at a high school), then randomly selects a sample from each of these subcategories (each grade level). This sampling method is called a:

Stratified Sample

The ______ ___________ is the proportion of people actually included in your sample, relative to the number of people you attempted to include.