Intro to Psych Chapter 2

Dr. Girard is conducting a detailed examination of a patient with dissociative identity disorder. Dr. Girard is undertaking

A case study

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a good theory?

A good theory is complex.

Which of the following best defines an operational definition?

A method of turning conceptual variables into measured variables.

Dr. Evans prepares a set of questions to ask college students about their drinking behavior and their attitudes toward alcohol. Dr. Evans is undertaking...

A survey.

Informed consent includes which of the following?

A,B, and C

Fidelma is undertaking survey research. Which of the following is she probably doing?

Asking a sample of students a series of questions about their sexual attitudes and behaviors.

Psychologists use the term____________ research to refer to research that answers fundamental questions about behavior. The term____________research refers to research that provides solutions to everyday problems.

Basic; applied.

Arif is conducting an investigation of the effect of a word's length on the time it takes to recognize it. Brandy is examining the extent to which several broad personality traits are related. Which of the following alternatives best describes the type of research each of these individuals is conducting?

Both Arif and Brandy are conducting basic research.

Which of the following is an operational definition of "happiness"?

Both B and C are operational definitions of happiness.

Dr. Ellis performs an experiment to test the hypothesis that alcohol consumption increases verbal aggression. However, the alcohol group contained mostly men, whereas the no-alcohol group contained mostly women. In this experiment, gender is a(n)_________variable?

Confounding variable.

Which of the following a measure of variability?

Correlation coefficient

Psychologists disagree on whether____________is ever permissible in the conduct of psychological research.

Deception

Amanda selects a sample of college students. She obtains the students' scores on several personality scales, as well as on a test of creativity. Amanda wishes to summarize her sample's performance on the creativity test. She therefore computes_________ statistics

Descriptive

Which of the following researchers is conducting a case study?

Dr. Innis, who is examining the tactile perception of a blind woman.

Naturalistic observation entails which of the following?

Examining behavior in the setting in which it typically occurs.

Which of the following alternatives correctly matches a research design with its goal?

Experimental research- assesses the casual influence of one or more manipulations.

Which of the following prominent psychologists developed his theories primarily through case studies?

Freud

Between which pair of variables is one most likely to find a positive correlation?

GPA and amount of studying.

"Opposites attract." "Birds of a feather flock together." The aphorisms are.

Hypotheses

Professors Chase and Sanborn are conducting an experiment on the effects of caffeine on memory. Participants are randomly assigned to a caffeine or a no-caffeine group and their recall of items on a word list is later assessed. Which pair correctly identifies a variable in this experiment?

Independent variable;caffeine

Survey is to case study as____________is to___________.

Many participants; one participants.

Which of the following is true in a double blind experiment?

Neither the experimenter nor the participant knows what condition the participant is in.

A reviewer believes that a researcher's theory is unnecessarily complicated. She believes that the theory is not__________

Parsimonious

In the________ review process, research is screened and critiqued by scientists in the field before it is published.

Peer

The difference between the highest and the lowest score in a data set is termed the________.

Range.

Which of the following best defines basic research?

Research that answers fundamental questions about behavior.

Which of the following best describes applied research?

Research that investigates issues that have implications for everyday life.

At a DUI checkpoint, some cars are stopped at random; many others are not stopped. Using the terminology of psychological research, the cars that are stopped may be considered a____________of all the cars that pass by the checkpoint.

Sample

Amy is conducting a survey of dating attitudes and behaviors among young adults as part of her masters' thesis work. Amy distributes questionnaires to 200 randomly selected students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at her university. The 200 students constitute Amy's_______. The people of whom she assumes her results will generalize are termed the______.

Sample; population

Descriptive statistics

Summarize a set of data.

A scatter plot is a visual representation of...

The relationship between two variables.

What does a psychologist usually mean when she says a particular experimental result is "statistically significant"?

The result is unlikely to have occurred solely as a result of chance.

Which of the following concepts is correctly matched with its definition?

Theory- an integrated framework explaining the data in a given domain.

Which of the following is the goal of experimental research?

To assess the casual influence of one or more manipulations.

Which of the following is the goal of descriptive research?

To assess the current state of affairs.

Professors Chase and Sanborn are conducting an experiment on the effects of caffeine on memory. Participants are randomly assigned to a caffeine or a no-caffeine group and their recall of items on a word list is later assessed. Which pair below correctly names and identifies the variables in this experiment?

Word recall-dependent variable; caffeine-independent variable.

Abstract ideas forming the basis of research hypotheses are termed.

conceptual variables

The purpose of random assignment is to...

ensure that participant characteristics are equivalent across conditions.

One of the most frequent criticisms of psychodynamic theory is that it cannot be disproved; that is, the theory is not____________

falsifiable

When a researcher debriefs her participants, she..

provides a detailed explanation of the hypotheses and goals of the study.