Exam 2: Research Methods: Tools for Discovery

The problems with national surveys include:

A research design in which researchers compare groups of individuals of different age levels at approximately the same point in time is:

A program provided to improve a situation or relieve psychological illness or distress is:

A question less likely to be used with the experience sampling method would be:

Which of the following is an advantage of field experiments:

An experiment in which researchers measure the results of events that occur naturally in the real world is:

What is the factor that researchers deliberately manipulate in an experiment?

Direct observations of behavior cannot occur in laboratory settings

Agreement to participate in a study based on a full understanding of its purposes and procedures is:

A way of studying change over time that combines features of both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs is:

Practice effects, or the effect of repeatedly testing participants over many years, is not a problem with longitudinal designs

When researchers go into settings in the real world or bring participants into the laboratory to observe behaviors of interest, it is called:

An effect size can represent:

Which of the following is not a type of direct observation:

Reactivity:

Whether or not a participant is part of the experimental treatment or a control group is an example of:

A type of group interview in which an interviewer poses a set of that are answered by the participants of the group is called:

Advantages of longitudinal designs over cross-sectional designs include allowing researchers to:

Use of psychophysiological approaches including cortisol, EEG, and fMRI allow researchers to clearly argue for causation

The following elements are thought of as important for making a sample representative: