Exam 2: The Measure of Mind Methods of Psychology

Professor Wyler has obtained a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of violence in film on attitudes toward aggression among teenagers.He would like to study the effects in a range of socio-economic settings,from impoverished to very wealthy communities.Should he obtain approval from his institutional review board? Why or why not? Discuss potential ethical issues that he should consider related to research in an impoverished community.

Regarding Cali's study of the stress levels of domestic workers with green cards,which of the following would be the most reasonable form of incentive for each interviewee?

The "Connecting to Research" feature indicates that one critique of Professor Bem's recent study of extrasensory perception (ESP)is that ____.

An experimental study is conducted examining the relationship between drinking caffeine and reaction time.Participants given caffeine by the experimenters in different amounts,and then are assessed on various tests of reaction time.In this study,the amount of caffeine that a participant drinks is the ____.

A measure of how tightly clustered a group of scores is around their mean is called the ____.

An experimental design for assessing age-related changes in which data are obtained from the same individuals at intervals over a long period is called a ____.

A subset of a population being studied is called a ____.

A set of facts and relationships between facts that can explain and predict related phenomena is called a(n)____.

In their study,Anderson and Dill found that the physical aggression score was positively correlated with the amount of recently recorded video playing time.Based on these results,we know that ____.

Which of the following lends itself to the use of a descriptive method?

A survey is a descriptive method in which the participants are all asked ____.

During the peer review process,whose work is most likely to be accepted rapidly into the body of scientific knowledge?

Sir Isaac Newton noted that scholars ____.

When we make conclusions based on observations of our immediate circle of acquaintances,friends,and loved ones,we are engaging in ____.

A proposed explanation for a situation,usually taking the form "if A happens then B will be the result" is called a(n)____.

A standard for deciding whether an observed result is due to chance is called ____.

A limitation of the experimental method is that ____.

One challenge meta-analyses have is

Consider the observation that many school shootings have been perpetrated by people with a history of playing violent video games.In this scenario,what could the third variable be?

Permission obtained from a research participant after the risks and benefits of an experimental procedure have been thoroughly explained is called ____.