Question 1

Having a representative sample is most important in which of the following example claims?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Having a dark triad personality is associated with having greater relationship problems." 
B)  "Receiving weekly feedback from your supervisor increases work productivity." 
C)  "People who report knowing someone who has been diagnosed with skin cancer also report having greater sunscreen use." 
D)  "Forty-three percent of psychology majors report being frustrated by people asking them if they are psychoanalyzing them." 
A)  "Having a dark triad personality is associated with having greater relationship problems." 
B)  "Receiving weekly feedback from your supervisor increases work productivity." 
C)  "People who report knowing someone who has been diagnosed with skin cancer also report having greater sunscreen use." 
D)  "Forty-three percent of psychology majors report being frustrated by people asking them if they are psychoanalyzing them."

Question 2

RESEARCH STUDY 7.1: Professor Kramer has decided to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester.He is teaching two classes this semester-Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience.He gives his students a survey. If all the students in Dr.Kramer's two classes complete the survey, then Dr.Kramer has done which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Decreased the external validity of his study 
B)  Collected too much data 
C)  Relied on a census 
D)  Enhanced sampling bias 
A)  Decreased the external validity of his study 
B)  Collected too much data 
C)  Relied on a census 
D)  Enhanced sampling bias

Question 3

RESEARCH STUDY 7.1: Professor Kramer has decided to measure how happy his students are with his teaching this semester.He is teaching two classes this semester-Psychology and Law and Introduction to Neuroscience.He gives his students a survey. Dr.Kramer could reasonably use his sample to say something about which of the following populations of interest?

Accepted Answer

A)  Students enrolled at the university 
B)  Students who are political science majors 
C)  Students who have taken a class with Dr. Kramer 
D)  Students currently taking a psychology class 
A)  Students enrolled at the university 
B)  Students who are political science majors 
C)  Students who have taken a class with Dr. Kramer 
D)  Students currently taking a psychology class

Question 4

Which of the following is true of a nonrepresentative sample in a research claim?

Accepted Answer

A)  You should automatically disregard the claim. 
B)  You should automatically accept the claim. 
C)  You should ask whether it is relevant to what the researchers are measuring. 
D)  You should ask whether more participants are necessary. 
A)  You should automatically disregard the claim. 
B)  You should automatically accept the claim. 
C)  You should ask whether it is relevant to what the researchers are measuring. 
D)  You should ask whether more participants are necessary.

Question 5

If researchers measure every member of a population, they have:

Accepted Answer

A)  conducted a census. 
B)  collected a sample. 
C)  increased internal validity. 
D)  biased the study. 
A)  conducted a census. 
B)  collected a sample. 
C)  increased internal validity. 
D)  biased the study.

Having a representative sample is most important in which of the following example claims?

Which of the following is true of a nonrepresentative sample in a research claim?

If researchers measure every member of a population, they have:

Psychology Is a Way of Thinking

Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find IT

Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research

Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research

Identifying Good Measurement

Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do

Bivariate Correlational Research

Multivariate Correlational Research

Introduction to Simple Experiments

More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables

Experiments With More Than One Independent Variable

Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs

Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World

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Exam 7: Sampling: Estimating the Frequency of Behaviors and Beliefs

Having a representative sample is most important in which of the following example claims?

Which of the following is true of a nonrepresentative sample in a research claim?

If researchers measure every member of a population, they have:

Psychology Is a Way of Thinking

Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find IT

Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research

Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research

Identifying Good Measurement

Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do

Bivariate Correlational Research

Multivariate Correlational Research

Introduction to Simple Experiments

More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables

Experiments With More Than One Independent Variable

Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs

Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World

Filters