Exam 2: Research Methodology

A group of policymakers are working to address issues of public safety in a residential neighborhood by increasing police presence.Which of the four primary goals of science are they addressing?

As Dr.O'Malley begins an experiment,he reviews the factors that might affect participants' willingness to take part.Dr.Quick is providing a detailed explanation to participants who have just completed a study.Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is likely to be associated with observer bias?

Casey is using statistical techniques to examine whether children with autism differ in the amount of self-esteem they report as compared to children without autism.She finds a significant difference,which suggests that the results of her analysis:

Another word for a hypothesis is a/an:

Carlos reads an article looking for a measure of central tendency.Which of the following might he find?

If a researcher believes that participants in a single group will score differently from one another on a task,the researcher can find out if that is true by looking at the:

The statistic that involves the basic arithmetic average of a set of scores is known as the:

Paloma randomly assigns participants to two groups.She wants to compare a group that receives a treatment with a group that receives no treatment.The group that gets no treatment is the ________ group.

In correlational studies,we cannot interpret which variable may be the cause and which variable may be the effect.This phenomenon is known as:

When a researcher's bias affects the coding of data,there is a problem with:

Philippe wants to study the number of times that close friends touch each other in their interactions.His interpretations of this behavior would need to take into consideration:

A researcher studying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is gathering information on how many children receive an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis each year.Which of the four primary goals of science is she addressing?

When a researcher cannot manipulate variables in a project,he or she is forced to collect naturally occurring data.The data analysis would probably involve:

According to some psychologists,Sigmund Freud's theory of the meaning of dreams was not a successful theory because:

The systematic recording of overt behavior of human and nonhuman animals in their natural environment involves what research strategy?

What does it mean for a theory to be falsifiable?

If a researcher publicly discussed a participant's responses and named the participant,that researcher would be guilty of violating what specific ethical principle?

Which of the following formal elements of the scientific method consists of a set of interconnected ideas or concepts?

Suppose a research study does a good job at making sure the results generalize to the real world,but does not do a good job preventing confounds.This research study: