Exam 2: The Science of Social Psychology

Which of the following is a basic ethical principle outlined in the Belmont Report by The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research?

A negative correlation between stress and job performance suggests that higher stress levels cause poorer job performance.

Explain why random assignment is important for inferring cause and effect in experimental research.

Subjects are told at the beginning of a study as much information as possible so that they can determine if they would like to participate.This is termed _______________.

Which of the following statements represent a major difference between experimental methods and descriptive methods?

A researcher finds that there is a relationship between the amount of time college students spend at the library and performance on tests.Specifically,the more time spent at the library,the higher students scored on their exams.This relationship represents what type of correlation?

Stanley Milgram conducted a famous study where he led participants to believe that they were administering increasingly painful electric shocks to another 'participant' when that person answered a question incorrectly.The false information provided to participants is known as ______________.

Distinguish between single-blind and double-blind study studies.What is the advantage of conducting a double-blind study and why is it considered the 'gold-standard' in research?

Explain why it is difficult to draw causal inferences from correlational studies.Despite not being able to determine cause and effect from correlational studies,in what way can the findings still be useful and valuable? Provide an example.

You conduct a study on college students and find that there is a positive correlation between exercise and happiness.What can you conclude based on your findings?

Which ethical principle in the Belmont requires that the benefits and the burdens of the research be fairly distributed?

Researchers conducting a study in the US find that college-aged students in the Northeast tend to support same-sex marriages.They then decide to conduct the exact same study on college-aged students in the south and find similar results.This process of repeating a study to corroborate original results is known as ________________.

Which of the following would NOT represent a formal step in the research process?

Distinguish between positive and negative correlations.Provide an example of each one.