Exam 2: Hypothesis Development: Where Research Questions Come From

The ______ section is a short paragraph that summarizes the content of the article.

A literature review is ______.

Information about the statistical tests that were performed to analyze the data is included in the ______ section of an empirical journal article.

Justification for the present study is generally found in a well-written ______ section of an empirical journal article.

Explanations of behavior that need to be tested are called ______.

An introduction section does not provide the ______ content of study.

A research question that asks about the presence of behavior, how frequently it is exhibited, or whether there is a relationship between different behaviors is a ______ research question.

Explanations of behavior that need to be tested can guide research questions.

Choosing a research question is the ______ step in the research process.

"What types of people benefit most from cognitive behavioral therapy?" is a research question from the ______ area of psychological research.

Research questions are never descriptive.

"How does work environment affect job stress?" is a research question from ______ area of psychological research?

If a researcher makes a hypothesis for a study based on results that were reported in previous studies, they are making a ______ hypothesis.

Of the following resources, ______ likely cannot help a researcher conduct a literature review.

Researchers should consider how appropriate their question is for both scientific methods and the specific field of study before moving on to designing a study.

A good database to use to find journal articles in the area of biological psychology is ______.

"Does lack of sleep cause depression?" is an example of a ______ research question.

"What are the causes of alcoholism for veterans who were not in actual combat?" is a research question in the area of ______ psychology.

Predicting that a dog should breathe because all mammals breathe, and all dogs are mammals is an example of ______ reasoning.

A theory ______.