Question

Dr. Kline is planning on conducting a study next semester. He is curious as to whether sleep deprivation is associated with poorer cognitive performance. For example, if you sleep poorly the night before a big exam, will you do worse? Dr. Kline is especially curious about selective sleep deprivation, where people are kept from entering REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor brain waves, he plans to let participants sleep until they enter REM sleep and then he will wake them. After the participants are awake for one minute, Dr. Kline plans to let them return to sleep. As they enter REM sleep again, he will wake them again and follow the same procedure. He plans to do this through the entire eight-hour sleep session. The following morning, participants will be asked to take a sample SAT test.Upon receiving IRB approval, Dr. Kline trusts his graduate student to conduct the study. However, his graduate student does not conduct the study and instead provides Dr. Kline with invented results that support his hypotheses. This is known as which of the following? (A) Data fabrication(B) Data falsification(C) Plagiarism(D) Intellectual property destruction

Answer 1

(A) Data fabrication

Step-by-step explanation:

The student in this example would be guilty of data fabrication. Data fabrication occurs when a researcher constructs or adds data, observations or characterizations that did not actually occur in the gathering of data or during the experiments. This is a dangerous practice, as it renders the study meaningless.