Research Methods - Quizzes - Unit 1

What is a protocol in psychological research?

a detailed description of the research that is reviewed by an independent committee

An example of a pseudoscience is

astrology

Which of these is NOT a level of risk for research according to federal regulations?

at-risk research

The clinical practice of psychology does NOT include...

creating and evaluating advertisements

When an experimenter actively lies to a participant, this is considered which of the following?

deception through commission

Which of the following questions is not falsifiable?

does Bigfoot exist?

Cronbach's alpha and split-half correlations are the most common ways to determine...

internal consistency

Which of the following groups is NOT recognized in the Belmont Report as entitled to special protection?

military veterans

Consider the following psychological experiment: Participants are put into either a happy or a sad mood by having them look at short videos of either an uplifting or depressing nature. They are then asked to rate pictures of people on their attractiveness. In this study, what is the independent variable?

mood

Stanley Milgram's famous obedience study used deception in what way?

participants were told that someone in the adjoining room was receiving electrical shocks though actually there were no shocks

Which of the following is an example of a physiological measure?

skin conductance

When using a measure to assess a trait that is expected to remain stable over time, a researcher would expect to get consistent results each time the measure is used. This type of reliability is known as which of the following?

test-retest

Which of the following is an operational definition of memory?

the accuracy with which a person can retell a short story based on the numbers of correct details

Which term describes the extent to which the scores from a measure represent the variable they are intended to?

validity