Research Methods Final

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Which of the following studies would probably require written informed consent?

A confidential study examining income level and voting behavior

Which of the following is an example of translational research?

A sports psychologist who uses information on how we emotionally process victory to design an intervention for improving mental stamina during athletic performance.

Which of the following is an example of basic research?

An experimental psychologist who examines people's ability to perceive a "sweet" taste

From an ethical standpoint, in what way is researching prisoners with tuberculosis similar to researching children with ADHD/

Both groups of participants have less autonomy than other types of participants.

Exceptions are a way to disprove rules

False

Which of the following is NOT an example of physiological measurement?

Number of panic attacks a patient reports.

Which of the following events did NOT occur in the Tuskegee Study?

Participants in the study were given/infected with the disease.

In considering whether research is ethical, which of the following are balanced against each other?

Risk to participants versus values of the knowledge gained

For her research methods class, Serena plans to interview several teachers about their attitude toward teaching children who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD). This is an example of what type of measurement?

Self-Report measurement

Which pf the following sampling techniques would you recommend to a researcher interested in studying rare individuals, like people who have been struck by lightning?

Snowball sampling

Benjamin is a social psychologist who studies marriage. He believes that marital satisfaction has two components: the ability to trust one's partner and a belief that one can be a good spouse. He conducts a study to test his idea. Assuming that his data mathc his theory, which of the following stattments should he make?

The dat support the theory

The belief that the participants in a research study should be representative of the type of people who would also benefit from the findings of the research stems from which principle of the Belmont Report?

The principle of justice

Hosea is studying the relationship between caffeine consumption and problem-solving ability, Which of the following is a categorical way to operationalize caffeine consumption?

Whether the participant drank a soda in the 24 hours prior to the study

Arson is reading his morning paper and sees he following headline: " Men should avoid rock music playing board games." In the study, men and women played the game " operation" when listening to different types of music. Male participants performed worse when listening to AC/DC than when listening to Mozart, but females participants did not differ based on music. In the study, the researchers recorded how many errors participants committed. This is an example of which of the following?

a measured variable

Diego is interested in examining the relationship between a persons attachment style and his or her relationship satisfaction. He finds 65 studied that have examined this topic. He combines the results all of these studies and calculates an effect size. his research is most accurately describes as"

a meta-analysis

Different factors that could account for significant results are called.

confounds

I used gaze duration to measure peoples level of attraction. After reading what other researches did, i ran the study again using a hearth rate, pupil dilation, and gaze duration. i have improved

construct validity

You are testing whether people who switch between languages are better multitaskers. You find no correlation, but upon closer inspection of the data, you realize that people who never and frequently switch between languages are not good at multitasking, but people who switch only sometimes are very good. In other words, people at the extreme ends of the scale do poorly, while those in the middle of the scale do well. What statistical validity issues were you facing?

curvilinear data

How can we collect evidence about something we cannot see?

develop operational definitions

_______ is the approach of collecting data and using it to develop, support, and or challenge a theory.

empiricism

I ran a research study on language habits in San Antonio and then ran it again in Laredo. By running the study in two locations. I have improved

external validity

Another word for data is a (n)______

observation

Another word for hypothesis is a (n) _______

prediction

In the theory-data cycle, theories first lead to ________

questions

You are testing the correlation between traditional values and happiness. you find that most of your subjects in Laredo have very traditional values. You might face which statistical validity issue?

restriction of range

for a study to be ethical

the benefits must outweigh the risks

Research studies are superior to personal experience because:

they include at least one comparison group

If you fail to detect that variables are related, this is a

type 2 error


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