Exam 4: Reading and Evaluating Research

One way to detect deliberate fabrication in reported research is to

Psychologists place too great of an emphasis on developing operational definitions.

If you repeat a between-subjects experiment with a within-subjects design, you are doing a(n):

Replications are essential for the advancement of psychology as a science.

If you repeat the study using more standardized procedures and more participants, you are conducting a _____ of the original study.

Which of the following sections is a brief summary of the article?

Direct replications test the _______ of research results whereas conceptual replications test the ________ of research results.

The failure to find a significant result may be due to the study having insufficient power.

If you want to know about the participants in the study, you should consult the

In the results section,

A major function of conceptual replications is to

Systematic replications are not recommended if your concern is that the original study lacked construct validity.

Fraud is unusual in scientific psychology because

Psychological variables are easy to measure.

Which of the following sections should be easiest for anyone to understand?

In the results section,

Which of the following would NOT be a way of reducing the chances that subjects would play along with the hypothesis?

Most studies can always benefit from replication because

Once you have chosen a behavior to study, selecting an appropriate measure is usually simple.

Which of the following sections should you spend the most time trying to understand?