Exam 3: The Research Enterprise in Psychology Part 1

A researcher who is conducting an opinion survey asks viewers who are watching a political debate to dial a 1-800 number and record their opinion to the "question of the day." In this case the researcher is likely to have

In experiments, placing subjects in experimental groups such that each subject has an equal probability of ending up in any experimental group is referred to as

A variable, other than the independent variable, that appears to have influenced the dependent variable in a study is referred to as

To discover whether residents of a city are in favor of building a new sports stadium, the team's owner randomly selected and interviewed 500 of the city's 500,000 residents. In this instance, the 500 people that the owner interviewed would be

The scientific approach assumes that

A researcher is investigating the effect of high room temperatures on aggressive behavior in preschoolers. Half of the children are in a classroom where the temperature is a warm 88 degrees and half are in a classroom where the temperature is a normal 77 degrees. The researcher measures the number of hitting incidents that occur in each classroom. In this study the temperature of the room is the

A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables is the

A scientific journal refers to

In the Featured Study on "The Emotional Fallout of Expected and Unexpected Outcomes" the participants that had the lowest mean emotion rating were the participants who

Answering the question of "why" something happens is most closely associated with which goal of science?

The ____ approach assumes that events are governed by some lawful order.

Perhaps the greatest disadvantage or limitation associated with descriptive research methods is

Georgeanne calculated descriptive statistics for the age of residents in a nursing home. She reported the mean age as 75 years, with a standard deviation of 10 years. Later she found that she had made an error in her calculations. One resident's age was entered as 27 when it should have been 72. When this correction is made

Two of the data collection techniques that are most likely to involve direct contact between the researcher and the research participant are

A group of researchers wanted to determine if people will eat more food in a room with red paint and red decorations than in a room that is decorated blue. Half the participants in this study ate in a red room and half ate in a blue room. The researchers then measured how much food was consumed in each of the two rooms. In this study, the independent variable was

The ability to infer a cause-and-effect relationship is associated only with the

Statistics can be used to do all of the below EXCEPT

Which is NOT among the goals of psychology?

A researcher found that clients who were randomly assigned to same-sex groups participated more in group therapy sessions than clients who were randomly assigned to coed groups. In this experiment, the dependent variable was

A researcher plans to study the relationship between people's smoking behavior and their tendency to have minor physical illnesses (such as colds or the flu). Most likely he will use correlational research for the study because