Chapter 2 Psychology.CNC

An intelligence test yields the same results when administered on three separate occasions. However, the test results are more strongly correlated with hours spent on doing homework than they are with other standardized intelligence tests. This test has ______ reliability and ____ validity.

High;low

Research on ____ subjects must always involve_____.

Human; obtaining informed consent

The ______ reviews research conducted using animal subjects.

IACUC

The belief that strange behavior is linked to the occurrence of a full moon is an example of:

Illusory Correlation

Peer reviewers ____

Help ensure quality control in reporting scientific findings

A group of preschool-age children are enrolled in a study that plans to follow them over time in order to assess behaviors and other characteristics that may predict later development of schizophrenia. This is an example of a(n) ________ design.

Longitudinal

______________ research studies the same groups of participants over time.

Longitudinal

Greet et al. used a _____ from their _____ of interest in order to make a _____.

Sample;population;generalization

A basic experiment involves a minimum of _____ participant groups.

Two

Krista and Tatiana Hogan are participants in a _____ of conjoined twins who are joined at the head.

case study

Which of the following represents a weak positive correlation?

+.2

Which correlation coefficient best represents a moderate relationship showing fewer anxiety symptoms in people who report higher life satisfaction?

-.5

Which of the following results represents a strong negative correlation?

-.9

On a graph of a correlation coefficient, points falling near to a straight sloped indicate

A strong correlation

______ research uses past records or data sets to investigate research questions or to look for patterns or relationships.

Archival

Simplicity of conducting the study is to ____ as ability to test large number participants is to _____________.

Archival research; surveys

Many studies that cannot ethically be conducted as experiments with typical human participants ______.

Are possible to test with animal studies

__________ is a reduction in the number of research participants as some drop out of the study over time.

Attrition

Research describing a link between childhood vaccines and autism has been _____.

Retracted due to a financial conflict of interest by author

The possible range for a correlation coefficient is _____.

Between -1 and +1

____________ are the most commonly used species for animal research.

Rodents

The scientific process is _____ involving both inductive and deductive reasoning.

Circular

A ____ case study is conducted by gathering detailed information about participants who are psychological patients.

Clinical

Sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children's development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of ________.

Confirmation bias

___________ is the tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs.

Confirmation bias

A ____ is a variable that affects both variables of interest and may falsely give the impression of a cause and effect relationship.

Confounding variable

The ______ group does not get the experimental treatment.

Control

_______ means that there is a relationship between two or more variables.

Correlation

An upper level psychology class is conducting an experiment on racial prejudice that involves having participants rate the likeability of faces in a set of photos. However, they tell participants that the study is about the effects of aging on likeability. When participants are finished, they are thanked for their time and leave the experiment. In this example, the class forgot to ____ in order to resolve the ____ in the study.

Debrief participants;deception

The _______ variable measures effects of the independent variable.

Dependent

Harrison et al. are conducting a study assessing the ability of depressed versus non-depressed participants to remember negative emotions in a short story about a family whose car breaks down. They plan to ask participants to read the story and then make a list of the emotions expressed in the story. Before beginning the study, they make a list of negative emotions (e.g., sadness and anger) that they will record from the participants' responses. In this example, negative emotions are the ________.

Dependent variable

A major advantage of case studies is _______.

Detailed information

Researchers are conducting a study where they have concerns that the participants beliefs and/or the experimenters beliefs may skew the results. Therefore, they choose to conduct a ____ study.

Double blind

Which of the following is a scientific way of determining facts?

Empirical studies

The only way to establish a cause and effect relationship between two variables is to conduct an _________.

Experiment

Which of the following research designs will allow cause and effect conclusions?

Experimental

Which of the following is not part of obtaining informed consent?

Explaining the hypothesis to the participants

The _________ is controlled by the experimenter.

Independent variable

Suprling et al. investigated the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. In this example, learning strategy is the _____ variable and word retention is the ____ variable.

Independent;dependent

______IRB reviews research that is conducted using human participants.

Institutional Review Board

________ assesses the consistency of observations made by different observers.

Inter-rater reliability

A sample that _______ is most likely to yield generalizable results.

Is large and randomly selected

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good hypothesis?

It is complex.

_________, an anthropologist, contributed to our understanding of chimpanzee behavior in the wild, using naturalistic observation.

Jane Goodall

A negative correlation means ______.

One variable decreases as the other increases

A ______is a description of how the researchers will measure the variables of interest

Operational Definition

____ are subjects of psychological research.

Participants

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was ethically problematic because __________.

Participants were not allowed to seek medical treatment

Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen. This describes _____.

Placebo effect

Trephination is the ______.

Procedure where a large hole is created in the forehead so that evil spirits can escape

Drs. Goran and Lieberman are interested in assessing differences in pain threshold between men and women. They recruit male and female participants to a study that assesses tolerance for thermal pain. This is an example of a _____ study.

Quasi-experimental

In order to maximize the chances that experimental groups represent the population of interest, researchers should conduct _____ and _____.

Random sampling; random group assignment

____________ refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result.

Reliability

Stan and Jenny are in a psychology course that requires them to repeat an experiment that researchers have conducted in order to determine whether they produce the same results. This is called _____.

Replication

In order to assess whether viewpoints on decriminalization of marijuana for medical purposes change with age, four group of participants, ages 20, 30, 40, & 50 are asked whether they support the issue. What is one flaw of this design?

Social or cultural factors may influence the results, not age

____ can be used to assess _____

Statistical analyses; reliability

An _________ is conducted in order to determine whether there are meaningful differences between two groups in a study.

Statistical analysis

What is one task that a peer reviewer is not likely to participate in?

Suggesting magazines that may be interested in publishing the research

________ is conducted with large numbers of participants and can even be conducted by phone, email, or mail.

Surveys

Scientific knowledge is advanced through a process known as ______.

The Scientific Method

American researchers studying the effects of physical attractiveness on compliance wish to expand the cross-cultural generalizability of their findings to a Lebanese populations. They travel to Lebanon and recruit local residents, whom American researchers rate as attractive or unattractive to act as experimental confederates. However, they are unable to replicate their research findings. What is a potential problem with this research?

The study may not be valid due to differences in standards of attractiveness between cultures.

One hundred introductory psychology students are surveyed about their intended majors. The results indicate that more women than men intend to pursue a psychology major whereas more men than women intend to pursue a history major. What do these results indicate?

There is a relationship between gender and intended major.

Research shows that people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer than those who do not smoke. This research alone demonstrates that ____________________.

There is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer

Lesley, a sociology major, believes that money is the key to happiness. Steven believes good health is the key. How might these two settle their dispute?

They could research peer reviewed articles to see if either perspective is reported.

Which of the following is not a potential problem associated with relying on college students as participants in psychological research?

They have higher attrition rates than other populations.

Magali and Jean-Gabriel have been asked to design a study investigating happiness across the lifespan. They decide their study will involve going to the mall and asking people of a variety of ages if they are happy or unhappy. What is the most serious flaw of this design?

They have not defined happinessor how it will be measured.

Devine et al. are interested in assessing whether active versus passive play causes a preference for sweet or salty foods in toddlers. They assign groups of children to either an active play, passive play, or no play group and record their food choices when presented with a variety of sweet and salty foods. In this study, ________ is the independent variable and ________ is the control group.

Type of play; no play

_____ refers to the ability of an instrument or tool to accurately measure what it is supposed to measure.

Validity

A ___________ is least likely to be involved in the IRB decision regarding whether a study will be permitted.

Veterinarian

Which of the following would be the best example of a valid naturalistic observation study in driving behavior?

Watching footage obtained from cameras set up unobtrusively on various streets

Which of the following would be difficult to conduct empirical research?

Whether the id, ego, or superego is most responsible for emotional reactions

The DARE program is an example of

Why empirical research is needed

Ethics need to be considered when _______ scientific research.

designing , conducting, and reviewing

In a _____ study, both the researchers and the participants are unaware of the group assignments.

double-blind

A _____ is a well developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena.

theory