Exam 1: The Mission and the Method

In survey research, the total number of people under consideration is called the ____.

Any cues in a study that suggest to participants what the researcher's hypothesis is are known as _____.

The study of how people change across their lives from conception to death is the purview of ____.

The influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on psychology is most readily seen in ____.

_____ refers to the extent to which the independent variable is a valid representation of the theoretical stimulus

A literature review that averages the statistical results from all studies conducted on the same topic is called a ____.

Can correlational studies or experiments ever be conducted outside of the laboratory?

Dr. Hon is a researcher who studies methods to encourage condom use among sexually active teens and preventing unwanted pregnancies. He would probably be BEST described as a(n)____.

Since 1936, Gallup poll results taken just before U.S. National election days have diverged from actual election results by an average of  about _____.

Research studies that withhold information from participants or intentionally mislead them about the purpose of the study are referred to as ____ studies.

Which of the following is an example of an "emotion"?

Theories are composed of abstract ideas called constructs because the researcher must build them up by specifying their dimensions.

Psychology can be thought of as a kind of "experimental philosophy" because psychology ____ while relying on the experimental method.

In psychology, an "affect" is most similar to ____.

Compared to laboratory experiments, field experiments tend to be ____.

In a between-subjects design, participants are exposed to only one level of the independent variable.

If you know that achievement is positively correlated with life satisfaction, you can conclude that ____.

In a _____, the researcher cannot randomly assign participants. ​

The measure of the amount of random sampling error in a survey's result is known as ____.

When findings from a study are likely to generalize to other people and other settings, the study is said to have ____.