Exam 2: Exstintion: How Psychologists Do Research

Professor Steegel wants to know how infants of different ages respond when left with a stranger.The most efficient approach to explore this topic would be to conduct a:

Experiments yield descriptions of behavior but cannot provide causal explanations.

In the control condition,subjects are treated exactly as they are in the experimental condition,except that they are not exposed to the same treatment of the independent variable.

Which of the following is most characteristic of scientists?

Anastasia is given a vocational-interest test in November and then retakes the test in January.The psychologist is _______________ of the test.

A psychologist is studying gender relationships in childhood and early adolescence.Fourth grade and sixth grade children are observed during lunchtime at school in order to assess seating preferences of boys and girls.From this information,it is evident that the researcher is:

A psychologist has the option of gathering information through psychological tests or through self-evaluations by the subjects.Which option would be more effective in clarifying the differences/similarities between individuals? Why?

Professor Wakelin has developed a new form of therapy that he believes cures anxiety.Sixty-three percent of the people who go through his program improve.A problem with his research study is:

In what circumstances is a psychological case study of limited use?

When researchers visited 32 pubs in one city,they ordered beers and recorded observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper.The reason they kept records in this way was:

The number of storks nesting in some European villages is positively correlated with the number of human births in the villages.This means that:

Most personality and intelligence tests on the Internet and in magazines:

The standard deviation is a commonly used measure of variability that indicates the average difference between scores in a distribution and their mean.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why research methods matter so much to psychologists?

Assessment instruments that are designed to measure beliefs,feelings,or behaviors of which an individual is aware are called:

The American Psychological Association (APA)suggests that all its members develop strong ethical codes for their research projects.

As a result of controversy over the use of deception in research:

Researchers prefer to select participants that accurately represent the larger population that the researcher is interested in.This type of group is called a(n):

A research hypothesis proposes that consuming low carbohydrate diets results in increased weight loss.One group of people follows a low-carb diet for three weeks,while a second group follows a high-carb diet containing the same number of calories for three weeks.The average number of pounds lost per person is compared.What is the dependent variable?

Which of the following is NOT one of the key characteristics of the ideal scientist?