Exam 2: Section 4: Methods in Psychology

Once participants give their informed consent, they are contractually bound to finish their participation; they cannot quit at any time.

Naturalistic observation is a method for determining causal relationships between variables.

Participants must give their informed consent before participating in psychological research.

Dogmatism is a desired characteristic of science.

If a study lacks external validity, it necessarily lacks internal validity.

Important frauds are more likely to be uncovered than unimportant ones.

The function of an Institutional Review Board is to help researchers design experiments high in internal and external validity.

A negative correlation between two variables means that as the score on one variable decreases, the score on the other variable also will decrease.

Double-blind observations are a way of controlling for experimenter bias.