Exam 2: Research Methods in Psychology

The greatest disadvantage of correlation is:

A weakness of ________ is that subjects participating in the research often report,consciously and unconsciously,inaccurate information.

Psychologists use research techniques based on __________.

A psychologist wanted to see if people are more prone to seek the company of others when anxious than when calm.He randomly assigned half of his subjects to an anxiety group and then told them that,as part of the study,they would receive electric shocks.He did not frighten the other group of subjects.Finally,he recorded how many subjects in each group chose to be "tested" in a group setting and how many chose to be "tested" alone.What was the independent variable in this study?

A large group of people whom you want to know about is called a __________.

In an experiment concerning the effect of auditory feedback on accuracy in writing computer programs,one group hears a computer-simulated voice say each character or symbol that they type in as they are writing their programs.The second group does not receive the auditory feedback as they type their program lines.This second group is the ___________ group.

In a controlled experiment,the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable,and used for comparison with the group receiving the experimental change,is the __________ group.

Collecting objective data without interference in the subject's normal environment is associated with:

Cause-and-effect conclusions can be drawn from the results of an experiment because:

A psychologist uses the correlational method to _________.

The survey method of research is ___________ in nature.

The degree of relationship between two or more variables is __________.

Research in which a carefully selected group of people is asked a set of predetermined questions in interviews or through questionnaires is known as __________.

The purpose of an experiment is to discover whether there is a relationship between the ___________ and the ___________.

The degree of relationship between two or more variables is:

Which of the following is NOT a strength of the experiment as a research method?

As part of an assignment,Bill's class was asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire on female sexual harassment.Which research method was Bill's professor using?

A detailed,well-researched biography of a famous historical person is technically an example of the __________ method of research.

In an experiment,a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable.The second variable,which is observed for any possible effects,is called the __________.

Manipulating an independent variable in a real-life setting is ________.