Exam 2: Research Methods

Despite being unable to determine ________ correlational designs are important in providing understanding of naturally occurring phenomena which could not ethically be experimentally manipulated.

Dr Barrios is examining the relationship between student scores on a practice test in his senior-level class with their actual performance, with different questions, on his first exam. If there is consistency or stability in these scores, Dr Barrios would be able to say that ________ exists.

Which of the following correlations represents the weakest degree of relation between two variables?

Dr Williams believes that by administering brief electric shocks to his students, he can improve their attention to his lectures. He blames daydreaming and inattention by his students for their poor performance in his class. His colleagues are not convinced that the potential benefits to the students will outweigh the physical pain they may endure. Ultimately, what will Dr Williams have to obtain from his students before proceeding?

A university president asks her psychology department chair if the university has more male or more female undergraduate psychology majors. What measure of central tendency is she asking about?

One important purpose of the peer-review process is to identify

A student researcher wishes to maximise the external validity of his or her research design. What research method should you recommend to him or her?

When debating the use of animals as research subjects, people often forget that research on animals

The preferred measure of variability in descriptive statistics is the ________.

Describe the roles of Human Research Ethics Committees and statements of informed consent within the human research process.

________ biases are systematic errors in thinking.

When asked if there are more ice-cream cones sold in November or July, Mary answers November immediately. She is surprised to find out that there is little to no difference between the two months in terms of ice-cream-cone sales. Mary's error is most clearly an example of

Dr Riviera measures his students' knowledge on the topic of memory by giving them three different quizzes over the course of three weeks (one a week). He is hoping to show that student scores are largely the same from week to week. He is trying to establish the ________ of his quiz.