Exam 2: Sources of Information: Evaluating, finding, and Reading Information

Karla is starting her study for her research methods and needs to begin finding some research articles.She tells you that she plans on searching for her sources on Google Scholar.Provide three reasons that you would recommend that she use PsycINFO instead to search for sources.

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Students must mention three of the following: PsycINFO allows you to search for terms in specific fields,PsycINFO specifies whether an article is peer reviewed,and PsycINFO focuses on psychology and psychology-related articles.

Charlotte is studying subliminal messages and weight loss.She is curious whether people will lose more weight if they hear subliminal messages that encourage weight loss ("don't eat that food," "you want to be thin")in the music on their iPods compared to people who do not have subliminal messages in their music.She studies 40 people and finds the following results: -A change to which of the following cells will result in a different interpretation of the results of subliminal messages?

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You are having lunch with several friends and discussing the link between homework and exam grades.Oliver says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because I always do my homework and I have a 4.0." Julia says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because a blog I read on an education website says so." Richard says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because that makes sense.Teachers would not assign it if it did not." Provide a response to each friend for why his or her reasoning is unsound.

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Students should mention to Oliver that his own experience might be biased or flawed because he has no comparison group (e.g. ,he might have made good grades without homework,he has just never done that);to Julia that the writer on that blog,although he or she may appear to be an authority,may not be and may be basing his or her opinions on personal experience rather than on actual research;and to Richard that sometimes obvious or intuitive explanations may not be the correct ones.

Which of the following is NOT a reason to be skeptical of an authority?

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Question 4

What does it mean that behavioral research is probabilistic?

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Question 5

Diego is interested in examining the relationship between a person's attachment style and his or her relationship satisfaction.He finds 65 studies that have examined this topic.He combines the results of all these studies and calculates an effect size.His research is most accurately described as:

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Question 6

The problem with the availability heuristic is which of the following?

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Question 7

When reading an empirical journal article "with purpose," why should you read the abstract first?

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Question 8

An alternative explanation for an outcome is known as a/an:

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Question 9

What is the problem with being swayed by a good story?

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Question 10

Compared with doing a generic Internet search,why is PsycINFO a superior way to find scientific sources?

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Javier wants his lab partner to tell him if he thinks the article he found for their project is appropriate.Rather than have him read the article,which two parts of the paper could Javier have his lab partner read to get a summary of the article?

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Charlotte is studying subliminal messages and weight loss.She is curious whether people will lose more weight if they hear subliminal messages that encourage weight loss ("don't eat that food," "you want to be thin")in the music on their iPods compared to people who do not have subliminal messages in their music.She studies 40 people and finds the following results: -To understand whether the subliminal messages have an effect,Charlotte needs to consider all of the following cells in the chart above EXCEPT:

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Question 13

Provide at least three reasons that explain why a wiki is a less-than-ideal source for psychological research.

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Question 14

Hannah just finished reading an empirical journal article for a class project.Where should she go if she wants to look for a list of the study's hypotheses or research questions?

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Question 15

Of the options listed below,which of the following is the last section of an empirical journal article?

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Question 16

Your friend Samir wants to learn how to be more persuasive.He is a marketing major and thinks that understanding more about persuasion might be helpful.Which type of scientific sources might you recommend to him and why?

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Question 17

Sasha believes that she is a nice person.To confirm this,she asks all her friends whether she is a nice person and they all agree that she is.Sasha concludes that she is a nice person and says she has evidence of it.However,she does not ask any of her enemies whether they think she is a nice person.Sasha would likely draw a different conclusion if she did which of the following?

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Question 18

Asking questions to get the answers we want is known as:

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Question 19

A psychiatrist is testing a drug that treats depression.He has given the drug to all his patients and all of them have experienced a decrease in depressive symptoms.Although this is interesting,his experience is limited because he does not have a:

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Karla is starting her study for her research methods and needs to begin finding some research articles.She tells you that she plans on searching for her sources on Google Scholar.Provide three reasons that you would recommend that she use PsycINFO instead to search for sources.

Which of the following is NOT a reason to be skeptical of an authority?

What does it mean that behavioral research is probabilistic?

Diego is interested in examining the relationship between a person's attachment style and his or her relationship satisfaction.He finds 65 studies that have examined this topic.He combines the results of all these studies and calculates an effect size.His research is most accurately described as:

The problem with the availability heuristic is which of the following?

When reading an empirical journal article "with purpose," why should you read the abstract first?

An alternative explanation for an outcome is known as a/an:

What is the problem with being swayed by a good story?

Compared with doing a generic Internet search,why is PsycINFO a superior way to find scientific sources?

Javier wants his lab partner to tell him if he thinks the article he found for their project is appropriate.Rather than have him read the article,which two parts of the paper could Javier have his lab partner read to get a summary of the article?

Provide at least three reasons that explain why a wiki is a less-than-ideal source for psychological research.

Hannah just finished reading an empirical journal article for a class project.Where should she go if she wants to look for a list of the study's hypotheses or research questions?

Of the options listed below,which of the following is the last section of an empirical journal article?

Your friend Samir wants to learn how to be more persuasive.He is a marketing major and thinks that understanding more about persuasion might be helpful.Which type of scientific sources might you recommend to him and why?

Asking questions to get the answers we want is known as:

A psychiatrist is testing a drug that treats depression.He has given the drug to all his patients and all of them have experienced a decrease in depressive symptoms.Although this is interesting,his experience is limited because he does not have a:

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