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You find some mushrooms growing in your backyard and want to find out whether or not they are poisonous, so you eat a few and see what happens. This is an example of the ____________ method of knowing or acquiring knowledge.

Empirical

Why is an artifact like experimenter bias a threat to the validity of measurement?

The measurements may be distorted by it

a refutable hypothesis must

allow for the possibility that the observations will not support the hypothesis

relies on info or answers from expert in the field

authority

Adolescents occasionally develop eating disorders. You wonder what is the best way to treat eating disorders. This is an example of getting research ideas from

casual observation

intelligence is a

construct

informing participants after

debriefing

A restaurant chef tried replacing rice with pasta in one recipe to see what would happen

empiricism

info accepted on the basis of a hunch or gut feeling

intuition

Fraud involves

making up data to fit the hypothesis

which of the following accurately describes the relationship between validity and reliability?

measurement cannot be valid unless it is reliable

When is informed consent not necessary?

public opinion on anonymous questionnaires

modifying behavior when you know your being studied

reactivity

A newspaper article discussing someones research

secondary

A textbook

secondary

An article that summarizes info from sources of original research reports

secondary

what additional information can you get from an interval scale than an ordinal

the size of differences

Counting the number of times a third-grade student leaves his or her seat without permission during a 30-minute observation period is an example of using what modality of measurement?

Behavioral

Which of the following describes a similarity between science and pseudoscience?

Both tend to use "scientific jargon.

You develop a new questionnaire to measure depression to make sure it is valid you compare scored os activities people are in and self reports of feeling of depression . You have demonstrated...

Convergent validity

A researcher developed a new intelligence test for elementary school children. However, the researcher fears that the scores from the test may actually be measuring the children's reading ability. To show that the test is really measuring intelligence and not reading ability, the researcher must demonstrate ____validity.

Divergent

You develop a new measure of honesty and other researchers agree that it looks like an appropriate way to measure honesty. You have demonstrated...

Face validity

medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences

MEDLINE

in a study you should not feel more anixety anger or depression because of

No harm

PhD dissertation

Primary

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Which statement is the best example of a hypothesis?

Smaller class size is related to better academic performance.

Establishing the reliability of a measurement procedure by using the procedure to measure the same individuals on two separate occasions and comparing the two sets of scores is known as ____ reliability.

Test-Retest

Why is the range effect known as a "ceiling effect" a problem for researchers?

The scores are already so high that there is no chance of measuring improvement.

A hypothesis is

a statement that describes the relationship between variables.

After you have scanned through a list of titles to determine which articles might to relevant to your research question you should read the

abstract

Finding out why clients diagnosed with schizophrenia do not consistently take their medication would be an example of ____.

applied

a researcher initiates a study to determine whether there is a significant decrease in student stress if class quizzes are announced rather than having pop quizzes

applied

Seeking answers by reading a chapter in a college textbook is an example of using the

authority

Which method of knowing is used when you find the address and phone number of a restaurant by googling the name of the restaurant?

authority

A researcher is intrigued by an explanation of children's problem-solving strategies found in a journal article and develops a research study to determine whether the article's ideas are correct. This study can be classified as ____ research.

basic

a study of decision making that led to important findings in education medicine and economics

basic

What term refers to a variable that cannot be measured directly but is useful for explaining behavior

construct

if a researcher does not inform the participants after the experiment has concluded of any misconceptions that participants may have led to believe, the researcher has violated the intent of ...

deception

generates testable predictions

deductive

uses a general statement to make conclusions about specififc examples

deductive

uses observation or direct sensory experience to obtain knowledge

empiricism

Based on limited experience with daisies in my flower garden, I have concluded that flowers require almost no care at all. This conclusion is an example of

inductive

based on observations of his own children Jean Piaget formed a theory about cognitive development of all children

inductive

uses a few specific observations to produce a statement about a larger possible set of observations

inductive

uses specific observations to develop general hypothesis

inductive

informing before

informed consent

​Two observers record similar observations on a behavioral rating scale for a group of children they are watching. The researchers have established what kind of reliability?

inter-rater reliability

if you "just know" you don't want to ride the new roller coaster even though your friends say that is really fun and you have not been on a rollercoaster before then your decision is based on

intuition

What is the most relevant question you should ask when reading the introduction section in a research article

is the literature review up to date

Advantage of operational definitions

it guarantees tht other researchers will know exactly how you defined and measured your variable

it is possible for psychologists to study variables like hunger motivation and self esteem because of

operational definitions

an elementary school teacher separates students into high, medium, and low reading skill groups. what scale of measurement is being used to create the groups?

ordinal

a researcher who deliberately omits informing participants about the true intent of a questionnaire is committing

passive deception

fMRI is example of

physiological

You develop a new measure of honesty and you find people who score high are more honest than low scores. You have demonstrated

predictive

Active deception refers to ____.

presenting misinformation to participants

empirical journal articles

primary

keeping names of participants secret

privacy

after measuring a set of individuals a researcher finds Bobs score three times greater than Janes what measurement is used

ratio

A group of students in a cooking class is trying to find a faster way to bake a cake. They know that it takes 30 minutes to bake a cake at 350 degrees, so they figure that it should take only 15 minutes at 700 degrees. These students are using the ________________ to solve the problem.

rational

Last year Tomas and his friend Jamie were both too short to ride the rollercoaster. Jamie went to the park this year and was tall enough to ride. Because Tomas is taller than Jamie, he thinks that he will be able to ride the rollercoaster as well. Tomas is using the ____ to answer his question.

rational

seeks answers by the use of logical reasoning

rational

Anonymous questionnaires is an example of what measurement

self report

a good example of a hypothesis

smaller class size is related to better academic performance

Sam is developing a new measure of impulsiveness. She compared participants responses on the first ten items on her self-report test to their responses on the second ten items. What psychometric property is Sam testing?

split-half reliability

Information accepted as true because it has always been believed or because superstition supports it

tenacity

Which method of knowing is being used by a student who believes that his performance on tests is influenced by wearing a lucky hat?

tenacity

Passive deception refers to

withholding information from participants