Exam 2: Research Methodology

Based on your text's discussion of scientific inquiry,the goals of psychological science include each of the following EXCEPT:

The process by which any deception used in a study is explained to a participant is called:

Operational definitions make it possible for researchers to do what?

Data collection is particularly problematic when a researcher uses participant observation because:

The most frequently occurring score in a data set is known as the:

The statistic that involves the basic arithmetic average of a set of scores is known as the:

A(n)_____ is a specific,testable prediction about the result that,if the theory is correct,will support the theory.

The precise way a researcher measures and defines a variable is known as the:

An institutional review board is likely to conclude that there are no troublesome ethical issues associated with which of the following types of study?

A study of the experiences of a synesthete-for example,a person who experiences a visual sensation when hearing a sound-is likely to make use of:

Which of the following phenomena would be best researched using a longitudinal study?

Someone who is interested in studying age-related developmental changes as they unfold over time would likely use what type of descriptive design?

When people are aware of being observed,they might change their behaviors.This phenomenon illustrates:

If you created a scatter plot of your data,what type of statistic would you have computed?

When two variables are correlated,it is not clear which one is a causal variable and which is an effect.This ambiguity reflects:

Psychologist Jean Piaget observed children to see how they solved problems.Over the course of many studies,he was able to spot general patterns of behavior.This led him to connect different concepts and behaviors within a single:

Researchers assess the baseline performance of people with respect to a given behavior so they can identify what happens to behavior when they manipulate a variable.The use of baseline groups and groups that experience a manipulation of a variable is characteristic of:

In order to look good,respondents sometimes give incorrect answers on a questionnaire.This behavior illustrates:

Which of the following alternatives is the closest meaning to the term serendipitous?

According your text,physiologists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel's Nobel Prize-winning research on the function of visual cells in cats' brains illustrates the value of _____ in scientific research.