Sociology psychology Research Methods 2110- Ch 2

Lily is counting the numbers of people who line up early to board an airplane. For half the trials lily had a flight attendant warn that they will begin boarding soon For the other half no warning is given. What type of experiment is lily conducting?

Field experiment

What is the name for the interdisciplinary field that combines biology and social psychology?

Social neuroscience

Mason has participants complete an online questionnaire. He then analysis their responses for patterns. What type of study design is Mason using?

Survey research

Josue wants to know which bathroom stall people are most likely to use. He asks his school's IRB if he can set up a camera in the bathroom to secretly record the users behaviors. Why should the IRB deny josue's request?

He is violating the participants' privacy.

April was able to run much faster when she was with friends rather than running alone. April is experiencing the benefits of

social faciliation

Hailey wants to control the variables in her study as much as possible. She does not want any extraneous variables to affect her results. What type of study should Haley use?

Experimental study

One commonly used test of nonconscious bias is the

implicit association test

The variable that gets manipulated in an experimental study is known as the

independent variable.

In social psychological studies involving deception sometimes a person who appears to be a partipant is actually working for the researcher. What is this person called?

Confederate

What type of research design shows that two variables are related to one another but not that one causes the other?

Correlational research design

In some parts of the US people likely to respond to an insult with anger and increased cortisol because of concern for insults to their reputation. What is this cultural leaning called?

Culture of honor

What is the name for the piece of technology that automatically records brief snippets of conversation?

Electronically activated recorder

What do researchers use in order to make sure that their priming technique affected the participants?

Manipulation check

Jackson's study involves five independent variables that he is manipulating. He is measuring their effect on three dependent variables. What type of study design is Jackson using?

Naturalistic observation design

John is testing the effects of exercise on mood. He defines exorcise as the number of steps a person takes in a day, and he measures it with a special watch that participants wear. What did John do to the variable"exercise"?

Operationalized it

A back ground variable about an individual such as a race gender or socioeconomic status is considered what kind of variable?

Participant variable

Ellie is very subtly and nonconsicously reminding women of their gender before giving them a math test. What Technique is Ellie using fo her study?

Priming

Historical or publicly available data is often used for what type of research?

archival

Archival research reveals that the number of lynchings between 1882 and 1930 rose as

cotton prices fell

If a study involves deception the experimenter should inform the participant of the true nature research during the

debriefing

After making observations and forming a research question scientists should

form a hypothesis

The largest problem with samples of convenience is that they

don't accurately represent the true population

Researchers rarely need to obtain consent when they are conducting what type of study?

naturalistic observation

When each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to a particular group the research design uses

random assignment

Sometimes a researchers study is meant to be deceptive but it actually contains hints and clues about its true nature. These hints are known as

demand characteristics