Exam 7: Conducting a Good Experiment Ii: Final Considerations, Unanticipated Influences, and Cross-Cultural Issues

What does it mean to use "availability" in choosing participants? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using availability in choosing participants?

An experiment in which both the experimenter and the participants are unaware of which treatment the participants are receiving is known as a ___________ experiment.

Explain how physiological and psychological characteristics of the experimenter can affect a research project. Why might these characteristics be problematic even if the researcher achieves constancy?

Describe some common procedures for controlling experimenter expectancies.

Describe three ways in which culture influences research.

What is a cultural response set? How does a researcher know if a cultural response set is operating? How does a cultural response set differ from a more general response set?

Which of the following is a drawback to using deception to control demand characteristics?

Lasting values, attitudes, and behaviors which are shared by a group define

Researchers are _________ when they view other cultures as an extension of their own culture.

In a single-blind experiment,

What is a back translation?

Which of the following is true regarding culture?

How do you think the researchers decided on this particular number of participants (finances, time, availability, type of research project, power concerns)? Explain.

Describe the Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) study involving the IQ scores of grade-school children. How does this study illustrate experimenter expectancies?

How do you think the researchers chose their participants for this study (precedent, availability, or type of research project)? Explain.

The tendency for participants to behave as they perceive the experimenter wants them to behave is known as

Participants who tend to answer no to all questions are known as

Participants who tend to answer yes to all questions are known as

Some cultures are individualistic, and others are not. Individualism is a(n)

What are experimenter expectancies and how do they affect a research project? Should experimenter expectancies be categorized as nuisance variables or extraneous variables? Explain.