Exam 2: Methods in Psychology

The _____ is BEST defined as a procedure for finding facts by using empirical evidence.

If researchers measure how some Canadian children behave after playing a violent video game for 2 hours and then replicate the experiment with Asian,European,and African children and then with teenagers,the researchers would be using which justification of nonrandom sampling?

Jennifer wants to see if the color of the testing room causes test anxiety.She asks 100 participants to come to a modified classroom,and as they walk in,she asks each person to choose either a testing cubicle painted bright red or a testing cubicle painted off white.On the basis of their choices,participants spend 20 minutes in one or the other cubicle solving challenging math problems.Then,they complete a survey asking them questions about how anxious they were during the math test.What's wrong with Jennifer's experiment?

Use the following to answer questions -(Scenario II)Participants were placed into groups using:

In a double-blind observation,the researcher but not the participant knows the purpose of the study.

The theory that ancient aliens seeded the planet with life millions of years ago and then disappeared is:

Empiricists believe that accurate knowledge about the world requires observation of it.

How is the psychological code of ethics as it pertains to respecting people enforced?

Which statement is TRUE regarding the principle of parsimony?

According to the textbook,the FIRST rule of critical thinking is to:

_____ is defined as a hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon.

Williams and Ceci (2015)sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices.They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified.What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned to the professors.That is,if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman,another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man.As a result,an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female.In this study,what is the independent variable?

_____ is defined as an instrument's ability to detect small magnitudes of the property.

What is the main advantage of experimentation over correlation in determining causal relationships?

A testable prediction derived from a theory is termed a(n):

The characteristic of an experiment that establishes the causal relationship between variables is termed:

The grade distribution of an "easy" course,in terms of overall percentage score (0-100),is BEST described by a:

Holding to Ptolemy's theories that the earth is the centre of the universe,despite contradictory observations made by Galileo upon the invention of the telescope,illustrates:

Suppose that a local government is considering a construction project that will cost taxpayers a large amount of money.Residents have strong views on both sides of the debate.In an attempt to educate the public,the city arranges several informational sessions in which the pros and cons of the project are discussed.Which result is consistent with the psychological literature?

Scientists tend to judge more complex theories as preferable to simpler theories.