Exam 2: The Measure of Mind Methods of Psychology

In the ideal normal curve,95% of the population falls within _____ standard deviation(s)of the mean.

Which of the following is true?

A quality of a measure that leads to meaningful conclusions (i.e. ,the measure measures the concept it was designed to measure)is called ____.

Dr.Livingston is conducting a study on the effectiveness of a new time-release antidepressant medication.Once a week,participants receive a small white pill from Dr.Stanley,which they take immediately without knowing if the pill is the new medicine or a placebo.Dr.Livingston then observes the participants,without knowing which participants received the placebo.This type of study uses the

A measure is a method for describing a variable's ____.

Using her data set regarding the stress levels of domestic workers with green cards,Cali has calculated the standard deviation of their housing expenses in two ways,with and without the workers who have zero housing expense.When she includes all workers,the standard deviation is ____.

The process of having other scientists who are experts examine research prior to its publication is called ____.

Participants in the following surveys are guaranteed that their answers will remain confidential and anonymous.In which case are survey respondents least likely to shade the truth?

Dr.Snape was skeptical after reading a study concluding that chocolate truffles reduced the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.Therefore,he initiated a similar study to determine whether he would achieve the same results.Dr.Snapeʼs study would be termed a ____.

Dr.Harmon has conducted a study of social networks and health within an isolated community.Which of the following would breach a research participant's right to confidentiality?

Describe the basic structure of a research experiment.Include the definition and purpose of the hypothesis,independent variable,dependent variable,control group,experimental group,and random assignment.

To illustrate the relationship between two variables,one can use a ____.

Cali's data set regarding the stress levels of workers with green cards contains housing expenses.The mean housing expenses is surprisingly low,but then she realizes that a small cohort of workers are live-in employees and report zero housing expense.A more useful measure of central tendency that would not be as impacted by these extremely low,outlying scores would be the ____.

A method for assessing age-related changes that combines the cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches by observing a cross section of participants over a relatively limited period of time is called a ____.

The halfway mark in a set of data,with half of the scores above and half below,is the ____.

Dr.Segal is testing the hypothesis that television watching in children under the age of two enhances the development of language skills.In her study,the use of random assignment ____.

Dr.Crane is studying patients who are in the residual phase of schizophrenia.His colleague,Dr.Mellus,takes detailed notes during a series of interviews and interactions that Dr.Crane has with one such patient for later analysis.What research method are these doctors employing?

Which of the following term is most synonymous with "reliability"?

A factor that has a range of values is called a ____.

The consistency of a measure,including test-retest,inter-rater,inter-method,and internal consistency,is called ____.