Exam 12: Putting It All Together: Maximizing Validity With Multi-Method and Highly Creative Research

According to Table 12.1 in the text,which research method is most likely to meet (at least moderately well)all three goals of generalizability to people,generalizability to situations,and precision?

How do all of the laboratory studies on evolutionary psychology discussed in the textbook help us generalize to situations outside of the lab?

It is important to look at how research studies generalize to situations because:

The Deese,Roediger,& McDermott (DRM)paradigm is often used by cognitive psychologists for what reason?

Thornhill et al.(2003)had male participants judge how "sexy" the worn t-shirts of female participants' smelled.This study can reasonably be classified using two different research designs.What are they?

Miller et al.(2007)found that exotic dancers received an average of $15 more in tips per hour on the days on which they were at their highest fertility levels compared with days when they were at their lowest levels.Compared with laboratory experiments on evolutionary psychology,what advantages does this study have?

It can be argued that research on implicit racial bias has not fully embraced the multi-method approach.Why is this?

In the Correll et al.(2002)experiment on racial bias and shooting decisions (using a video game),college students were more likely to shoot unarmed Black suspects than unarmed White suspects.Police officers who took part in this experiment did not show exactly the same tendency as college students.What statement can you make about this finding?

According to Table 12.1 in the text,which lists research methods and their goals,what method would you most likely choose to increase the chances of generalizing a laboratory finding to other groups of people?

3____ can typically solve the problem of the three-horned dilemma.

According to McGrath's (1982)"three-horned dilemma," research varies on all of the following dimensions EXCEPT:

What is the primary problem that researchers face with the "three-horned dilemma"?

Miller et al.(2007)studied the amount of tips that exotic dancers received based on where the dancers were in their fertility cycles.They made separate comparisons for dancers whose hormones were artificially regulated with birth control pills.What type of procedure did this require?

_____ research usually offers clear consensus on the type of questions that interest researchers in the field.

What type of researcher would be most likely to make use of a population survey?

By focusing on the person variable of gender in their research on violent versus non-violent video games,Bartholow and Anderson (2002)chose to employ which type of design?

In Anderson & Dill's (2000)study on video game aggression,the "noise blasts" that participants administered to opponents in the laboratory were measured.These findings,typical of those found in laboratory experiments,were ____ but lack______.

Why did researchers interested in the DRM paradigm choose to study people who believed they had been abducted by aliens?

Melanie is conducting a laboratory experiment that she hopes will support her theory that false memories are fairly easy to create.She asks college students to memorize a list of words and then complete an interference task.She finds that a significant number of participants report remembering words they were not asked to memorize.Which type of validity does her study most likely lack?

Three separate studies were discussed in the text that allowed the program of research on video game aggression to tackle the three-horned dilemma.Which was NOT one of the methods discussed?