Quiz 1 Review

A psychiatrist is testing a drug that treats depression. He has given the drug to all his patients, and all of them have experienced a decrease in depressive symptoms. Although this is interesting, his experience is limited because of what crucial missing component?

He lacks a comparison group that did not take the drug.

How does research overcome the problem of confounds?

Research systematically compares multiple conditions

Which of the following would be a reasonable operational definition of performance?

whether participants won against a partner

Which of the following is an association claim?

"Owning a dog is related to higher life satisfaction."

Hannah just finished reading an empirical journal article for a class project. Where should she go if she wants to look for a list of the study's hypotheses or research questions?

The last paragraph of the intro

Which of the following is the correct ordering of the sections of an empirical journal article?

abstract, intro, method, result, discussion, references.

Asking questions to get the answers we want is known as a

confirmation bias

Different factors that could account for significant results are called

confounds

Dr. Kang's decision to assign participants randomly to Group A and Group B increases the

internal validity

What is the best way to balance characteristics about participants that can lead to alternative explanations for findings?

random assignment

I am not sure you can really say for sure that being bullied leads to low self-esteem because they didn't measure being bullied before they measured self-esteem.

temporal presedence

Behavioral research is probabilistic, meaning

that the conclusions drawn from studies explain a large percentage of cases, but not necessarily all cases.

You are curious as to whether peer pressure is really to blame (peer pressure encourages you to watch television and peer pressure encourages you to be aggressive).

the third variable criterion