Exam 2: Getting Started in Research

The relationship between people's heights and weights is positive.

PsycINFO does not include articles published before 1973.

The research literature in psychology consists primarily of which of the following?

When you want to show that Variable X has a direct effect on Variable Y, what is the best kind of study to conduct?

Two important considerations in evaluating research questions are their interestingness and feasibility.

"Feasibility" refers to how interesting a research question is.

Research has shown that the use of human figure drawings improves children's memories for being touched.

Most professional journals in psychology are not peer reviewed.

A professional journal is a personal diary kept by a researcher.

A review article typically presents no new data.

Which of the following is true of a review article?

The most common source of research ideas in psychology is which of the following?

In a study of happiness, 100 people rate their level of happiness on a 1-to-10 scale. What kind of variable is this?

What typically happens to a manuscript during the peer review process for a professional journal?

In a research study, a variable that is conceptualized as the cause of another variable is the dependent variable.

In a study on the effect of visualization on golfing performance, the independent variable is visualization.

What makes a research question interesting?

Experiments do not have the directionality problem.

Whether or not someone is clinically depressed is an example of a quantitative variable.

Marital status is an example of a categorical variable.