Exam 2: Hypothesis Development: Where Research Questions Come From

Google Scholar will search the Web for academic journals and books to find articles relevant to a topic or written by a specific author.

A literature review is ______.

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.

Research questions for psychological studies ______.

"Thirty minutes before bed, will taking a brisk 20-minute walk or doing Yoga facilitate time to fall asleep more?" as a research question is a ______ question.

An introduction is a short summary of the study that allows readers to decide if the article is relevant to their literature review without reading the entire article.

Explain why a Google search will not provide a good literature review of a topic area in psychology?

A theory ______.

Explain the difference between descriptive and causal hypotheses.

"What types of memory decline as people age?" is a research question from the ______ of psychological research.

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 are called ______.

"What are the effects of amphetamine on the brain?" is a research question from the ______ area of psychological research.

Describe how you would conduct a literature review for the research question "Do symptoms of depression improve with cognitive therapy?"

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

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

If you are conducting a literature review on topics such as standardized testing, you may want to search for articles in ______.

Theory-driven hypotheses rely on ______ reasoning, whereas data-driven hypotheses rely on ______ reasoning.

Articles that have not been peer reviewed are typically ______.

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