A) explaining any significant factors that might influence a participant's willingness to participate in a study B) protecting the right to privacy of all the participants in a research study C) asking participants to sign a waiver form at the beginning of a study D) fully disclosing and explaining all aspects of a research study, once the study is over A) explaining any significant factors that might influence a participant's willingness to participate in a study B) protecting the right to privacy of all the participants in a research study C) asking participants to sign a waiver form at the beginning of a study D) fully disclosing and explaining all aspects of a research study, once the study is over

Exam 2: The Tools of Psychological Research

Dr.Gates was studying memory in young children.Five children were asked to remember a list of words.Judd and Caroline each remembered 7 words.Byron remembered 6 words, Eve remembered 5 words, and Gunther remembered 4 words.For these five children, the median number of words that were recalled was:

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 201

Imagine that the personality traits of openness and extroversion have a strong positive correlation.If Thaddeus has a score in openness that is extremely low:

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 202

Loss of external validity can occur when:

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Question 203

The score representing the middle of a data set or ____________________ is a commonly used measure of central tendency.

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Question 204

Defining wealth in terms of total value of assets minus total value of debts would:

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 205

Dr.Sanchez predicts that if the noise level in a room is increased, then individuals are more likely to make errors on a complex task.Dr.Sanchez's prediction is an example of:

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 206

Participant observation occurs when:

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Question 207

The range for a data set is:

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Question 208

What is informed consent as it applies to psychological research involving human participants?

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Question 209

Inferential statistics help researchers:

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Question 210

Explain what "random assignment" is, and what purpose it serves.

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Question 211

One of the most important functions of an experiment allows a researcher to establish causality.This factor is:

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Question 212

Researchers studying the effects of alcohol consumption tested the physical coordination skills of 21-year-old men who were first assigned to drink a beverage with 4, 2, or 0 ounces of alcohol in the laboratory.In this study, the dependent variable would be:

(Multiple Choice)

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Question 213

Debriefing involves:

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Question 214

Representative samples are achieved through ____________________, which means that everyone in the target population has an equal chance of being selected for the research.

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Question 215

The case study is a research method in which:

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Question 216

Researchers use inferential statistics to decide whether the behaviors recorded in a sample are representative of some larger population.

(True/False)

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Question 217

In an experimental study, the group of participants exposed to the experimental treatment or the changed conditions is:

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Question 218

Researchers who were studying the effects of music on plant growth raised plants in two different rooms.One room had soft music playing 24 hours a day; the other room had no music.In this study, the control group is:

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Question 219

An experiment that does not effectively control for confounding variables lacks:

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Dr.Gates was studying memory in young children.Five children were asked to remember a list of words.Judd and Caroline each remembered 7 words.Byron remembered 6 words, Eve remembered 5 words, and Gunther remembered 4 words.For these five children, the median number of words that were recalled was:

Imagine that the personality traits of openness and extroversion have a strong positive correlation.If Thaddeus has a score in openness that is extremely low:

Loss of external validity can occur when:

The score representing the middle of a data set or ____________________ is a commonly used measure of central tendency.

Defining wealth in terms of total value of assets minus total value of debts would:

Dr.Sanchez predicts that if the noise level in a room is increased, then individuals are more likely to make errors on a complex task.Dr.Sanchez's prediction is an example of:

Participant observation occurs when:

The range for a data set is:

What is informed consent as it applies to psychological research involving human participants?

Inferential statistics help researchers:

Explain what "random assignment" is, and what purpose it serves.

One of the most important functions of an experiment allows a researcher to establish causality.This factor is:

Researchers studying the effects of alcohol consumption tested the physical coordination skills of 21-year-old men who were first assigned to drink a beverage with 4, 2, or 0 ounces of alcohol in the laboratory.In this study, the dependent variable would be:

Debriefing involves:

Representative samples are achieved through ____________________, which means that everyone in the target population has an equal chance of being selected for the research.

The case study is a research method in which:

Researchers use inferential statistics to decide whether the behaviors recorded in a sample are representative of some larger population.

In an experimental study, the group of participants exposed to the experimental treatment or the changed conditions is:

Researchers who were studying the effects of music on plant growth raised plants in two different rooms.One room had soft music playing 24 hours a day; the other room had no music.In this study, the control group is:

An experiment that does not effectively control for confounding variables lacks:

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