Exam 2: D: Research Methods

Which measure of central tendency is used when asking about national income levels,wherein 50 percent of the population makes more than this amount and 50 percent of the population makes less?

Researchers will likely use the __________ to reduce background noise and increase the sensitively to ESP signals,transmitted by a sender.

Our tendency to make ourselves look better than we actually are,either for job interviews or Facebook pages,is called

To avoid demand characteristics,researchers frequently use __________ to keep their participants unaware of the purpose of the experiment.

A key disadvantage to self-report measures is that

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest degree of relation between two variables?

A group of students watch a videotape of two managers interacting with their subordinates at a customer service desk in a department store.Students see one of the managers' act in a friendly and respectful manner toward all of the employees.The other manager is less friendly but still respectful toward the employees.What concept would explain the more positive ratings on other dimensions for the friendly manager as compared to the less friendly manager?

The belief that one can detect the presence of objects or people that are hidden from view is referred to as

The __________ refers to the phenomenon in which researchers' hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome of a study.

The extent to which we can draw cause-and-effect inferences from a study is called

The placebo and Rosenthal effects are examples of __________ in experimental research.

The only research design that allows one to make cause-and-effect inferences is the __________ design.

The use of deception is justified by ethics review boards in all of the following circumstances except when

This simplest measure of variability is the

How does conducting a double-blind study attempt to remedy the experimenter expectancy effect?

The use of deception in psychological research is unjustified when

Which measure of central tendency is used when you are asked what is the most number of cigarettes you smoked in a day over the past week?

Which of the following statements is an example of the horns effect?

Which research design provides existence proofs?

Measures of __________ reflect how loosely or tightly bunched scores are in a distribution,whereas measures of __________ reflect where the group of scores tends to cluster.