Exam 1: Introductionand Research Methods

A potential limitation of the experimental method is thatexperimental results cannot be used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables.

Physiology is:

To ensure that participants are responding honestly andconsistently, survey researchers:

The term cognitive revolution refers to:

The results of Crum and Langer's hotel experiment:

In an experiment, the factor that is observed and measured for change and is thought to be influenced by the independent variable is called the:

Researchers were interested in the effects of alcohol consumption on the perceived attractiveness of members of the opposite sex. One group of participants was given 4 drinkscontaining alcohol, and another group was given no drinks at all. Next, both groups of participants rated the attractiveness of members of the opposite sex by viewing pictures and rating attractiveness on a 1-to-10 scale. Which group was the control group?

Which of the following approaches dominated Americanpsychology for the first half of the twentieth century?

In a study on the effects of caffeine on memory, participants drank a bottle of taste less water containing 100, 50, or 0milligrams of caffeine. The participants assigned to the group that got bottled water with no caffeine represented the _____ in this study.

Participants in the control group receive none of the experimental conditions except the independent variable or treatment variable.

The mother of a 16-year-old boy with juvenile arthritis was toldby a friend of special magnetic bracelets and a magnetic mattress that had helped her husband's arthritis. Her friend gave her a couple of pamphlets that described the unique pain-relieving and "healing" properties of the special magneticbracelets and mattress. The pamphlets referred to "scientificstudies conducted at a major university." The literature also provided several personal testimonials from people who claimed to have benefited from wearing the magnetic braceletsand sleeping on the magnetic mattress. The mother spent more than $500 on the magnetic mattress and bracelets but her son's arthritis symptoms did not improve. What was the mother's mistake?

Dr. Mason and Dr. Jacobson both work in Minnesota indifferent cities. They both treat people with severe mentaldisorders. Dr. Mason cannot prescribe medications for hispatients, but Dr. Jacobson frequently prescribes medications.Dr. Mason is probably a _____, whereas Dr. Jacobson isprobably a(n) _____.

Evolutionary psychology:

In an experiment, the control group is the group of:

In accordance with the APA Ethical Guidelines, at the conclusion of the Crum and Langer hotel study, the participants would have been:

The purpose of using a placebo control group in an experimentis often to:

The use of dogs and cats in psychological research:

Because his ideas were so controversial in this country,Sigmund Freud was refused a visa to visit the United States.

In one natural experiment investigating weight-gain during the first year of college, it was found that female students who were assigned to dormitories with on-site dining facilities gained more weight and exercised less than students who were assigned to dormitories without food services.

A _____ is a specific question or prediction to be tested,whereas a(n) _____ tries to integrate and summarize a large number of findings.