Exam 2: The Measure of Mind Methods of Psychology

While people who volunteer to participate in research are probably quite different in important ways from those who do not volunteer,most psychologists have chosen to prioritize ____.

According to the American Psychological Association's guidelines,research animals ____.

Noreen is a graduate student in psychology.She is designing a study regarding health care decision-making among teenagers.Which of the following research participants can legally provide his or her own informed consent?

Steve and Joe are debating about the best places to live after college.Steve states that the Southwest offers a healthier lifestyle than the Northwest and insists that he is basing his conclusions on facts,without any influence of personal emotion or bias.In other words,Steve believes that he is showing ____.

You decide to study the effects of violent video games on aggression for a sociology term paper.To do this,you attend several LAN parties at a friend's apartment,week after week.What method of research are you employing?

Professor McGonagall is analyzing the data from her latest experimental research on the amount of time-spent flying and its effect on the speed of cognitive processing.Based on the following information,what conclusions may or may not be drawn by Professor McGonagall and what,if anything,can be generalized to the larger population? a.The number of participants in the study (N)= 10 b.The control group mean speed of cognitive processing = 30 seconds c.The experimental group's speed of cognitive processing = 40 seconds d.The standard deviation is large. e.The probability factor = .10

A newspaper headline reads,"Are intellectual pursuits the key to preventing Alzheimer's disease?" The researchers scanned the brains of healthy seniors with no memory loss and asked the seniors to recall how much reading,writing,and game-playing they did in childhood.Those who reported doing daily brain activities from a young age had very low levels of amyloid plaques,which are associated with Alzheimer's disease.Which of the following best describes this study's findings?

Naturalistic observation is best suited for ____.

When a hypothesis is demonstrated to be false using appropriate research methods,what must be done?

Neil has gathered data regarding self-report of successful smoking cessation.He finds that one of the eight methods used by study participants accounts for a high proportion of the successes.The most useful measure of central tendency to report would be the ____.

A newspaper headline states,"Autism spectrum disorder correlation to wealth affirmed." Researchers found that affluent youngsters were almost twice as likely as the poorest children in the study to have autism spectrum disorder.This is a ____.

Scientific hypotheses are best described as ________.

Which of the following is an advantage of survey research?

Analysis of SAT test data shows that the differences on the mathematics portion of the SAT test between male and female test-takers are ____.

In statistics,the extent to which scores differ from one another or from their mean;often measured using the standard deviation,is called ____.

Conducting a meta-analysis often provides a ____.

The text described a survey that asked a representative sample of middle-school students to respond to 17 motives for playing violent video games on a four-point scale.Surprisingly,around 20% of boys indicated that they liked to play these games in order to ____.

An inactive substance or treatment that cannot be distinguished from a real,active substance or treatment is called a ____.

Professor Scott conducts research on teenage risk-taking behavior.He would like to develop a hypothesis on the parental influence on teenage risk-taking at the extreme end of the spectrum,with a focus on teenagers who sail around the world alone.Would a case study be an appropriate first step,and why or why not?

In his study of American cities,Professor Smith finds a strong positive correlation between the number of preschools and the number of bars.What is the most likely explanation of this relationship?