NURSING RESEARCH EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

NURSING RESEARCH EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS question: During a study examining nurses' job satisfaction, the union decides to hold a strake. This is which type of threat to internal validity? - Correct Answer️️ -HISTORY Question: What is the degree to which the results of studies can be generalized to other individuals, settings, or time called? - Correct Answer️️ -EXTERNAL VALIDITY Question: A researcher plans to observed children in a kindergarten class. Students have always been told to be on their best behavior when guests are present. What is the greatest threat to external validity? - Correct Answer️️ -HAWTHORNE EFFECT Question: In retrospective designs, AKA ex post factor, the researcher manipulates the IV. - Correct Answer️️ -FALSE nonexperimental design used to gather data from a group of subjects at only one point in time; a study design to measure exposure and disease as each exists in a population or representative sample at ONE SPECIFIC POINT IN TIME. - Correct Answer️️ - CROSS SECTIONAL DESIGN Question: The Solomon four-group design is more effective at controlling for the threat of testing than is the two-group pretest-posttest design. - Correct Answer️️ -TRUE Researchers randomly assign subjects to either an intervention group or a control group AFTER the intervention - Correct Answer️️ -TWO-GROUP POSTTEST ONLY DESIGN Question: In a factorial design, only one group of subjects is required bc they act as their own control. - Correct Answer️️ -FALSE 1. Which of the following is not a purpose of nonexperimental designs? A) describe phenomenon b) explain relationships c) predict relatio