Exam 3: Personality Psychology As Science: Research Methods

Dr. Low is interested in studying the relation between mood and willingness to help a stranger. Every participant in her study completes a mood-rating questionnaire and is then given an opportunity to donate money to a homeless stranger. Dr. Low is using a(n) ________ design.

A researcher computes a correlation coefficient between variables X and Y using a handheld calculator. Which of the following values would automatically tell the researcher that he or she made a mistake?

In simple language, questions about reliability concern ________, whereas questions about validity concern ________.

A research strategy that involves gathering as many different measurements as you can of a particular construct and determining if those measurements correlate is called ________.

If test scores go down as anxiety goes up, then ________.

According to the text, science is the process of cataloging facts already known with certainty.

Validity is the degree to which a measurement ________.

Psychometricians assume that construct of intelligence is demonstrated through responses to an IQ test.

If you can get the same answer repeatedly, then your measure is ________.

The goal of the dissertation in the process of scientific education is to demonstrate that the future scientist ________.

A researcher wants to conduct a significance test for the correlation between extraversion and happiness. What is the null hypothesis in this analysis?

If a psychologist describes a research result as statistically significant, what does he or she typically mean?

Random assignment allows researchers to ________.

Which of the following is NOT a typical argument used to justify deception in psychological research?

The p-value tells researchers the probability that a finding will be exactly duplicated.

Which of the following sampling methods affords a researcher the greatest generalizability?

Imagine that you could draw a flat horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y. Which of the following is the closest value to the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?

The fact that much of modern empirical research in psychology has been based on white, middle-class college sophomores may reduce the ________ of psychological research.

Introspection is an example of the ________ method.

Which of the following is good practice for interpreting correlations?