Which of the following would constitute a violation of the ...

[jenna1]

Which of the following would constitute a violation of the ethical standard of confidentiality?
 
  a. At a conference, a psychologist presents the neuropsychological assessment scores for an Alzheimer's patient, telling the audience only that the data came from a 64-year-old Caucasian male..
  b. A professor shows a portion of a therapy session with one of his clients during a graduate seminar, after having obtained the client's consent to do so.
  c. A study author indicates that participants were 203 undergraduate students enrolled in introductory psychology at the university during fall 2011.
  d. None of the above scenarios involves a breach of confidentiality.

Question 2

Dr. Paulus conducts a study that compares the success of two 8-week weight-loss regimens. She uses statistics to compare the mean number of pounds lost by participants in each condition and comes up with a p-value of .08 . What is the safest conclusion for her to draw?
 
  a. The results of the study are statistically significant.
  b. The difference in mean weight loss between groups may have been caused by chance alone.
  c. The difference in mean weight loss between groups was too great to have been a chance finding.
  d. One could expect similar levels of weight loss in the population at large.

[wergv]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B