Exam 2: Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find IT

Sasha believes that she is a nice person.To confirm this, she asks all her friends whether she is a nice person; they all agree that she is.Sasha concludes that she is a nice person and says she has evidence of it.However, she does not ask any of her enemies whether they think she is a nice person.This is an example of which of the following?

Diego is interested in examining the relationship between a person's attachment style and his or her relationship satisfaction.He finds 65 studies that have examined this topic.He combines the results of all these studies and calculates an effect size.His research is most accurately described as:

Tim tells you that the best way to make friends is by opening the conversation with a joke.He can easily recall all the friends he met by telling a joke and also the times he opened with chitchat and didn't befriend the person.If you were concerned that Tim was making the blind spot bias, what would you ask him?

Different factors that could account for significant results are called .

What is the difference between advice from an authority and that from a researcher?