Psychology Quiz 1

The largest problem with samples of convenience is that they

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Jose 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 Jose's request?

He is violating the participants' privacy.

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

debriefing

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

archival research

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 participant is actually working for the researcher. What is this person called?

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Lily is counting the number of people who line up early to board an airplane. For half the trials, Lily has 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

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 Hailey use?

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John is testing the effects of exercise on mood. He defines exercise 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"?

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

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

manipulation check

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

naturalistic observation

A background variable about an individual such as race, gender, or socioeconomic status is considered what kind of variable?

participant variable

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

primes

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

priming

After making observations and forming a research question, scientists should

form a hypothesis

In some parts of the United States 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

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?

complex experimental design

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

random assignment