Psych Module 4

Researchers that study the online behavior of people focus on their:

Virtual language behavior

when researchers take special care to include and control for every possible variable, the study is likely to have high _____, even though the results may not generalize to a more realistic situation

internal validity

it is important to design research experiments that are associated with real-world situations in order to ______

generalize

Dr. Hart is interested in the role of relationships preventing heart disease. As her patients come Into her office In Bluebell, Alabama, she asks them two questions: Are you in a relationship? Have you experienced any heart problems in the last 8 years? Based on her findings, she concludes that relationships cause cardiovascular (heart) problems. One issue with her methodology is that the results are not generalizable. What Does this mean?

her results may not be true for the entire populatin

The degree to which a study allows unambiguous casual inferences has

internal validity

The degree to which a study ensures that potential findings apply to settings and samples other than the ones being studied refers to:

external validity

Dr. Sharma wants to study the extent to which stress is related to suicidal ideation in people who suffer from depression. She gathers information about the level of stress, depressive symptoms, and suicidal thoughts a set of participants experience the day after they attend the funeral of a loved one. Because this study is assessing people under conditions that are not typical of everyday life, it is lacking in __________ validity.

ecological

What type of research highlights causality, allowing the cause to be separated from the effect?

laboratory experiments

The development of _____ has provided a new level of advantage for gathering information from research participants at specific times, often randomly selected, throughout a given day

smartphones

as a researcher, you decide that you are very interested in peoples everyday behavior (daily social interactions and activities). Therefor, you decide to use an electronically activated recorder, or EAR device, to capture the acoustic diary of participants' days as they naturally unfold. In this scenario, you are;

studying daily behavior