Exam 4: Research Methods

In a double-blind study,

The reason that researchers cannot allow participants to decide whether to be in the control or treatment group is that this procedure may result in differences between the treatment and control group participants that

"My parents used to beat me all the time,and I turned out OK." What is wrong with this "evidence" favoring harsh physical discipline?

All of these are strategies used in single-case study designs to improve internal validity except

A study that uses the controlled conditions of the lab to replicate the phenomenon under study is called a(n)

When developing a hypothesis,one important consideration is

Single-case experimental designs are sometimes criticized because they tend to

A researcher separates participants into two groups.Group A receives an active medication,and Group B receives an empty capsule that looks and feels like the real medication.Group B is the ______ group.

A child is having temper tantrums at home,at school,and at his grandparents' house.After working with the parents for a while,the therapist believes that the child is being rewarded for his tantrums in each setting because his teacher,parents,and grandparents generally give him what he wants just to make him stop yelling.The therapist devises a plan to stop his tantrums but first implements the plan at home,then the following week at school,and finally at the grandparents' home several weeks later.From a research perspective,this is an example of

The factor that distinguishes experimental research from other forms of research is

In an experiment with depressed patients,doctors gave some participants antidepressant pills while others received an identical pill with no active ingredients.Neither doctors nor patients knew who got what.If both groups improved substantially but equally,this is evidence that

Positive development strategies involve efforts to blanket

Your psychology professor is conducting research and desperately needs more participants because the existing subjects keep running from the building screaming! She tells the class that everyone must be a subject to get a grade in the class and that there are no exceptions.In terms of ethical treatment of research subjects,her policy would

Studies that have significant confounds are said to be low in ___________.

The study of what genes do and how they interact with the environment to create the symptoms associated with psychological disorders is called ___________ genetics.

Which of the following is not an ethical concern related to subject participation in research studies?

Every incremental increase in variable A is associated with an exactly equal increase in variable B.The correlation between these two variables is _______.

Internal validity is defined as

The dependent variable in a research study is the variable that

Family,twin,and adoption studies can identify all of the following EXCEPT