Exam 2: Research Methodology

Dr.Meyers is investigating the relationship between stress and obesity.In his latest study,he found that stress often leads to obesity because it causes overeating and has slowing effects on metabolism.Which of the four primary goals of science is he addressing with his most recent work?

A research team told one group of people it would hear a set of jokes that were funny and a second group that it would hear jokes that were not funny.A third group was not told anything about the jokes.The jokes in all conditions were the same.Research with this design is:

What is the main characteristic that sets case studies apart from other types of studies?

If a researcher defined happiness based on the number of times a person smiled in a 15-minute period,the number of smiles would be:

Suppose a researcher studying the effect of having a pet on elderly people's subjective well-being does NOT use a control group in his study.What type of validity is this measure lacking?

Wilhelm randomly assigns participants to two groups and compares the group that receives a treatment with the group that receives no treatment.The group that gets the treatment is the ________ group.

The ethical treatment of animals is important to consider for:

According to the text,animal models may be considered ethical for psychological research if:

What type of study can be described as a "study of studies"?

If you created a scatterplot of your data,what type of statistic would you have computed?

Jana conducts a study and finds a positive relationship between sensitive parenting and children's academic achievement.If she wants to make a judgment as to whether the same pattern would be found in the population,she would use:

When identifying the pool of participants who will be in a research project,psychologists most often use ________ even though it is not preferred.

When researchers collect data in a study,if they unconsciously code a person's behavior to match their expectations,we say there is:

Based on your text's discussion of scientific inquiry,the goals of psychological science include each of the following EXCEPT ________ behavior and mental processes.

Which of the following statements is true regarding the use of deception in psychological research?

The variable that a researcher manipulates in an experiment is called the:

When a researcher debriefs his or her participants,he or she:

According to the text,how do hypotheses relate to theories?

When people are aware of being observed,they might change their behaviors.This phenomenon illustrates:

If a researcher was denied permission to conduct a study because participants might suffer harm,that decision would have been made by the: