Exam 2: Methods in Psychology-Part A

Because males are more _____ than are females on a wide range of cognitive abilities,they tend to be _____ among great scientists.

Which number represents the WEAKEST correlation coefficient (r)?

Roger wants to study whether the level of personal income predicts happiness.He operationally defines income as "the gross amount of money a person earns in a calendar year." He operationally defines happiness as "the ability of that person to stand on one leg for longer than 3 minutes." What is glaringly wrong with Roger's study?

To correctly measure a specific property of an object,the property must be _____ and _____.

Which researcher who completely lies about conducting a study and makes a fraudulent research claim will probably get caught?

A property with a value that can vary or change is called a(n):

In an experiment,researchers exposed half the children to 2 hours of violence on television every day for a month and made sure the other half saw no violence on television at all.At the end of the month,they measured the level of aggressiveness in the children.What were the children who were exposed to violent television?

What are the two key features to an experiment?

If researchers measure how some American children behave after playing a violent video game for 2 hours and then replicate the experiment with Asian,European,and African children and then with teenagers,the researchers would be using which justification of nonrandom sampling?

The statistic that describes the average distance between the measurements in a frequency distribution and the mean of that distribution is the:

In an experiment,researchers exposed half of the participants to loud noise during a memory-encoding task.The room was quiet for the other half of the participants.Later,all participants were given a memory test and the number of correct items recalled was obtained for each participant.What is the dependent variable?

Sofia's research yielded results that are consistent with a hypothesis derived from a cognitive account of classical conditioning.Which conclusion is CORRECT regarding the theory?

In the number sequence 1 1 2 3 4 5,which number is the mode?

What is the BEST way to make it less likely that people will be influenced by demand characteristics?

In a classic experiment,psychology students were assigned to work either with "bright" rats or with "dull" rats,described as such by the experimenter.In a task involving learning a maze,rats arbitrarily labeled as "bright" learned the maze faster than did rats arbitrarily labeled as "dull." The experimenter suspected that the psychology students with "bright" rats took the learning task more seriously,and this was reflected in their rats' performance.This finding illustrates how:

Cruella would not describe herself as the type of person who cares about animal rights,but she says that she does when filling out a survey for a psychologist.This illustrates that people can be highly _____ when studied.

In an experiment,researchers exposed half of the participants to loud noise during a memory-encoding task.The room was quiet for the other half of the participants.Later,all participants were given a memory test and the number of correct items recalled was obtained for each participant.The participants who encoded information in the noisy room constitute the:

The chair of the psychology department wants to determine the average GPA of all psychology majors at the college.She compiles a list of the GPAs of all the psychology majors and calculates the average.The chairperson is working with data from a(n):

A social psychologist is constantly evaluating his program of research to make sure that the benefits of the research in terms of knowledge about human behavior outweigh the risks associated with mild deception.The psychologist is evaluating whether or not his research is:

Which statement is TRUE about the scientific method?