Exam 2: Research Methods in Psychology

The extent to which a measure actually assesses what it is believed to measure is referred to as:

I am interested in whether different types of therapy result in faster recover. I follow 7 different therapists using a different type of therapy and 20 patients in each condition and I record how long it takes for them to be cured. As you can imagine, I cannot determine who goes to which therapist and thus there is no random assignment of patients. What kind of research method am I using?

Variables that can be placed on a continuum, such as the degree of happiness or the amount of income, are referred to as:

I vary the distance of a sound-producing object and measure the ability of observers to accurately report the distance of the sound source. The distance of the sound source is what kind of variable?

A test that yields relatively similar scores for the same individual over time has which ONE of the following types of reliability?

Although I ran an elegant study, which produced significant differences between groups in my lab, my results don't actually predict what people do in the real world. My study is very low in

The more tightly a researcher controls what participants experience, the less the situation may resemble life outside the laboratory. This balance is known as

Having a strong correlational coefficient means that

As can be imagined, no research method is perfect. For that reason, identify the five methods of research discussed in Chapter 2 and state the limitations of each. What do you see as the best research method? Why do you think that?

Findings that can be generalized from the laboratory to the real world have:

Jane Goodall's studies of apes in Africa are an example of the:

I decide to simply describe behavior rather than to manipulate variables. Therefore, I should use which type of research?

A systematic way of organizing and explaining observations is known as a

The major problem with survey methods is that:

In the 1960's, Stanley Milgram conducted a series of now classic studies designed to study:

A hypothesis is best characterized as:

James Pennebaker found that college students made fewer visits to health services if they:

If a researcher studies students at Tiger University in order to learn about students at all universities, then the student body of Tiger University comprises a:

You decide to run an experiment where a person pretends to be a subject and at one point refuses to participate in the experiment anymore. You want to see how others react. The person who pretends to be just another subject is commonly referred to as a/an:

A subgroup of the population that is likely to be representative of the population as a whole is known as