Exam 2: Studying Behaviour Scientifically

Susan is interested in whether or not college students are prejudiced against elderly people. She has students come into the lab, view the faces of elderly people, and make judgments about the emotion displayed by each face. Susan tells participants that they are working on an emotion recognition experiment; however she is actually measuring the number of negative emotions assigned to the elderly faces. Susan's proposed research involves which of the following violations of the ethical standards in human research?

Internal validity is to external validity as

A placebo effect makes it difficult to draw cause and effect conclusions because we cannot tell whether

What are some advantages and disadvantages of survey research?

A clinical psychologist has observed that there appears to be an association between parental anger and childhood self-esteem. In particular, parents who score higher on ratings of anger and hostility tend to have children who have lower self-esteem. If this psychologist's impressions are correct, the relation between parental anger and childhood self-esteem would be an example of a

Random assignment is used to ensure that a sample is representative of the population from which it is drawn.

If you ran a study with incomplete disclosure, it would be necessary for you to also include

Madison does a study to find out if using a smart phone in the evening negatively affects her sleep. In her study, the dependent variable could be

Cause-effect relationships can be studies closely by case study?

Considering the following data set: (3, 4, 4, 0, 4, 1, 5), which of the following statements is true?

Deception is justified in psychological research

In a study designed to investigate the causes of stress, a psychological researcher measures stress by monitoring people's heart rate and blood pressure. In this study, the researcher has utilized which method of measuring behaviour?

If a research study found that career motivation was higher among recent immigrants to America than among Americans, most people could readily offer several reasonable explanations for this finding. However, if the study found that career motivation was higher among Americans than recent immigrants to America, most people could generate an equally convincing set of explanations. This example demonstrates the problems associated with

Which of the following is/are TRUE of the normal distribution (bell-shaped curve)?

Which of the following is a Canadian Psychological Association guideline on animal research?

A correlation of .53 is considered to be stronger than a correlation of -.78.

Placebo effects

A(n) ________ definition defines a variable in terms of the specific procedures used to measure it.

One of the significant advantages of correlational research is that

A researcher is interested in the effects of a vegetarian diet on memory. One group eats a strict vegetarian diet for three months, a second group eats a strict vegan diet for three months, while a third group eats anything they want for three months. After three months, all participants are given a memory test. Results indicated that memory was better for both the vegetarian and vegan groups. In this study, the dependent variable is