Exam 2: Methods in Psychology-Part A

What is one reason why naturalistic observation alone cannot solve the problem of demand characteristics?

The public gets suckered into buying the latest weight-loss supplement from television infomercials featuring many testimonials that the supplement is effective,precisely because they rarely consider which question?

Which statement is TRUE if scores on an examination are negatively skewed?

If there are two different research methodologies that both would answer a particular research question,psychologists are obligated to use whichever methodology minimizes risk to participants.This illustrates which ethical principle?

Which statement describes a negative correlation?

Which description is the BEST example of naturalistic observation research methodology?

Mike wants to know how many licks it takes to get to the center of his all-day sucker.He tells his friends that "one full gyration of the tongue around the outer surface of the lollipop" is what constitutes a "lick." In an informal way,Mike is offering a(n):

A scatterplot of a perfect positive correlation would depict a(n):

Margot wonders if people behave more aggressively when there is a full moon.To attempt to find out,she categorizes arrest records and emergency room admissions by the cycle of the moon.Margot is taking a(n)_____ approach to the question.

Participants in psychological research are free to end their participation at any time,with no threat of retribution or punishment.This freedom is consistent with which feature of ethical research?

When participating in psychological research,participants sometimes report not their true beliefs but rather what they feel to be the socially acceptable answer.This illustrates that people can be highly _____ when studied.

In the context of an experiment,the dependent variable is the variable that is:

The phrase "n = 1" means that:

In the context of an experiment,participants in the experimental group:

A clinical psychologist is evaluating a client recovering from a substance abuse disorder to evaluate his likelihood of relapse.Which measure is LEAST susceptible to demand characteristics?

If differences between the experimental and control groups are obtained,and when the odds are acceptably low that random assignment hasn't failed in an experiment,the results of the experiment are said to be:

It is unethical to coerce people into participating in research,even if the research is ultimately beneficial,because doing so violates which feature of ethical research?

In the context of an experiment,the independent variable is the variable that is:

Williams and Ceci (2015)sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices.They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified.What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned to the professors.That is,if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman,another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man.As a result,an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female.In this study,what is the dependent variable?

A p-value is a(n):