Mid-Term review social psych

Josue 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 Josue's request?

He is violating the participants' privacy

April was able to run much faster when she was with friends, rather than running alone. April is experiencing the benefits of

social facilitation

After making observations and forming a research question, scientists should a. test their theory

form a hypothesis

One commonly-used test of nonconscious bias is the

implicit association test

Dr. Gonzalez conducts research that allows her to draw conclusions about a small group of people: the participants in her study. She now wonders whether these conclusions will apply to the larger population from which her sample was drawn. Which of the following questions is most relevant to Dr. Gonzalez's current situation?

Do my conclusions generalize into the real world?

In a research study, ______ validity addresses the degree to which that study can lead to unambiguous causal inferences

Internal

1. The variable that gets manipulated in an experimental study is known as the

a. independent variable

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

archival research

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

correlational research design

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

debriefing

The largest problem with samples of convenience is that they

don't accurately represent the true population

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?

experimental study

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

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

naturalistic observation

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

random assignment

What is the name for the interdisciplinary field that combines biology and social psychology?

social neuroscience

Mason has participants complete an online questionnaire. He then analyzes their responses for patterns. What type of study design is Mason using?

survey research

What is traditionally considered to be the "gold standard" in psychology research?

the laboratory experiment

______ is the degree to which a study ensures that potential findings apply to settings and samples other than the ones being studied.

External validity