Exam 2: Research Methodology

One issue that an institutional review board is likely to concern itself with is:

According to your textbook,which of the following lists the steps of the scientific method in the correct order?

Unintended differences between the groups in an experiment may introduce confounds; these differences reflect a condition known as ________ bias.

Which of the following best represents a medium negative correlation?

Researchers have found that taller people tend to have higher levels of self-esteem than shorter people.This pattern of data reflects:

What do we mean when we say that inferential statistics allow researchers to make generalizations?

Miranda is statistically combining the results of all the published studies on the effects of the presence of a weapon on eyewitness accuracy.Miranda is performing a(n):

There is a correlation between depression and memory: When people suffer from depression frequently,they often display worse memory than people who suffer from depression less frequently.Genetics,however,may have an effect on a study participant's depression and memory.This combination of factors is known as:

In observational studies,participants sometimes show reactivity.A related phenomenon in self-report studies is called:

If a researcher's data are reliable:

Psychologists have greater confidence in research results when:

Clara is working on a study to examine shy children's behavior with peers they have not met before.She is developing theories,forming hypotheses,and conducting research to determine if her theory is supported by the data.In what process is she engaged?

In what way are internal validity and external validity different?

In which of the following types of descriptive studies do researchers involve themselves in the situation of interest?

If a researcher created two groups by assigning the first 30 people to the experimental group and the last 30 to the control group,the process would violate the principle of:

A store owner wants to make sure she has enough shirts in the right sizes in her inventory,so she buys a lot of shirts in the most popular size.In order to make this purchase,what type of statistic would she want to know?

If a seriously brain-damaged patient cannot give informed consent to participate in medical research,then researchers can:

Which of the following alternatives is the closest meaning to the term serendipitous?

Data collection is particularly problematic when a researcher uses participant observation because:

Jamal is performing statistical analyses to determine whether the effects of the treatment in his experiment might actually have reflected chance; Kendra is performing an analysis to combine the results of a number of experiments to yield an overall conclusion.Jamal is performing a ________; Kendra is performing a ________.