Exam 2: How Psychologists Do Research

Doing good research is demanding; however, the challenges are multiplied when psychologists venture into societies other than their own. Describe and give examples of three major concerns that arise in multicultural research.

Match these descriptions with the appropriate research method. -A measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another.

A researcher finds that there is no correlation between the colour of the house you grew up in and your IQ. This relationship, as indicted by these correlation coefficients, is:

Ideally, everything in an experiment except the independent variable is held constant.

An operational definition tells:

An advantage of case studies is that:

The likelihood of lying about a touchy topic is reduced when respondents:

Match these descriptions with the appropriate research method. -A study in which the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behaviour without interfering with the behaviour.

The higher a male monkey's level of the hormone testosterone, the more aggressive he is likely to be. This means that:

When researchers visited 32 pubs in one city they ordered beers and recorded observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper. The reason they kept records in this way was:

According to the principle of falsifiability, a scientific theory must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the possibility of disconfirmation.

Professor Tearlach gives her new test of psychological aptitude to her psychology students at the start of the year. At the end of the year, she finds out that those students who did poorly on her test averaged an A in her courses. A shortcoming of the test is that it lacks:

Assessment instruments that are designed to measure beliefs, feelings, or behaviours of which an individual is aware are called:

Which descriptive method would be most appropriate for studying flirtation behaviour in college students?

Julie has found that the number of hours she sleeps each night is related to the scores she receives on quizzes the next day. As her sleep approaches eight hours, her quiz scores improve; as her sleep drops to five hours, her quiz scores show a similar decline. Julie realizes that:

Professor King's test of creativity has a problem in regard to validity because what is actually being tested is verbal sophistication.

Match these descriptions with the appropriate research terms. -An organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and their interrelationships.

Many tests and surveys on the Web have not been:

Shannon reads in a news magazine that people who are chronically depressed are more likely than non-depressed people to develop cancer. From this article, Shannon would be able to determine that:

The higher a male monkey's level of the hormone testosterone, the less docile he is likely to be. This means that: