Exam 2: How Psychologists Do Research

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:

Over a period of 55 years, a British woman sniffed large amounts of cocaine, which she obtained legally under British regulations for the treatment of addicts. She appeared to show no negative effects, other than drug dependence. What does this case tell us about the dangers/safety of cocaine?

Which of the following methods would be most appropriate to study the effects of alcohol consumption on problem solving ability?

Professor Wakelin has developed a new form of therapy that he believes cures anxiety. Of the people who go through his program, 63% improve. A problem with his research study is:

Professor Gaggos wants to determine whether the needs for personal space are different in Greece than they are in Canada. His results will be used to train business executives in maintaining appropriate conversational distances. The research method appropriate to his purpose would be:

The Tri-Council and CPA's ethical guidelines require researchers to thoroughly debrief participants about the true purpose of a study if deception has been involved.

Cross-sectional studies allow one to determine the:

Research methods that depict behaviour but are not necessarily causal explanations are called:

An advantage of the naturalistic observation is that it allows the use of sophisticated equipment.

In what circumstances is a psychological case study informative?

Results from cross-sectional studies find that older people perform as well as younger individuals on tests of mental functioning.

When Dana takes a personality test, she is told that the test has been judged to have criterion validity, that is:

A/An ________ is a statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena.

A researcher plans to investigate whether a cup of hot milk at night helps people relax so that they fall asleep quickly. In this study,

A well-known study on experimenter effects using rats labelled as "maze bright" and "maze dull" was conducted by ________ in 1966.

In order to be taken seriously, a hypothesis must be:

The hotter the weather, the more muggings tend to occur. This means that:

A team of psychologists is studying changes in attitudes toward nuclear disarmament after a TV movie about nuclear holocaust. It is most likely that they are conducting a/an:

CPA ethical standards require researchers to:

A laboratory observation is a controlled test of a hypothesis in which the researcher manipulates one variable to discover its effect on another.