Exam 2: Psychology and Science

Your grandmother's cure for your upset stomach is to rub vinegar on your ear lobes.It works much of the time,but has no real medical effect.Psychologists would probably say that this is an example of a:

Based on telephone surveys,about ____ of school-age children are diagnosed with ADHD.

An animal rights group claims that there are no regulations or agencies that monitor the care and treatment of animals in research.As an educated psychology student,what is your response?

Draw a graph that illustrates a positive correlation,negative correlation,and no correlation.Provide an example of each correlation.

Explain the correlation between poor health and binge drinking among adolescents.

The process of answering questions about human behavior and mental processes through information observation and speculation is called ________ psychology.

Chronic binge drinkers are ____ more likely to be overweight than nonbinge drinkers.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of surveys,as presented in your textbook?

Create an experiment to test a new computer program to teach middle school students algebra.Make sure you include and identify the control group,experimental group,independent variable,and dependent variable.How will you decide what subjects are assigned to groups?

Ritalin,which is commonly used for ADHD,is a depressant.

What advantage is there for a researcher to use a combination of research methods to answer questions about ADHD?

If each subject in a sample population has an equal chance of being selected,it is called:

Assume there is a correlation of .00 between shoe size and number of siblings.If you know someone's shoe size:

Diagnosis of ADHD is based on:

A psychologist is concerned that a colleague's research is yielding a certain type of finding because the colleague expects that finding.The psychologist suspects the effect of:

Which of the following is true about research involving animals?

Your grandmother's cure for an upset stomach is to rub vinegar on your ear lobes.According to your relatives,the treatment works much of the time,but has no real medical effect.Placebos are often widely accepted because ____ is (are)very influential.

To get subjects who are representative of the population,experimenters use:

Correlations are not appropriate to ____ but are useful to ____.

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents a situation in which an increase in one variable is associated with an increase in the other variable?