Exam 3: Exploring the Literature of Psychology

Which question is most likely to be asked by the critical reader during his/her evaluation of the method section of an article?

The major purpose of the "method" section is:

A journal article title should be:

In the sample article by Mehl,Vazire,Holleran,& Clark (2010),what were the independent and dependent variables?

The vertical axis of a graph is called:

Findings can often appear deceptively robust when researchers abbreviate the scale of the dependent variable along the ordinate.

The best general resource for an understanding of the literature is Psychological Review.

The method section may include each of the following subsections except:

The references for a journal article must:

Which question below is a critical reader least likely to ask while reviewing the introduction of an article?

The Social Science Citation Index is an excellent way to discover new research related to a particular topic.

Which section of an article should the reader approach with the most skepticism?

Which statement below that might appear in a results section of an article deserves the most skepticism?

According to your textbook,which section of a typical research paper would be most likely to include an explicit statement of a general hypothesis for an experiment?

Line graphs are usually used when the levels of the independent variable are scaled at the nominal level.

In which section of a research paper is an author ideally supposed to provide a review of the relevant research that has been previously conducted on the topic?

When the levels of an independent variable are ordered along a single dimension/scale,the resulting data would most effectively be displayed (i.e.,in a way that could be most rapidly understood by the viewer while still being appropriate)using a:

Which resource below might a researcher be most likely to rely upon if he/she was interested in quickly becoming aware of the most recent findings on a given topic?

The critical reader will ask,"How would I interpret these results?" when reading the "results" section.

The purpose of a project is stated in the "introduction",but hypotheses appear in the "method."