Exam 7: Experience Carefully Planned: Experimental Research Designs

In the early days of psychological research,researchers tried to ensure that experimental and control groups were identical to one another by using:

Which of the following tips is NOT one of the "six commandments of being a good experimenter" discussed in the text?

Designing a laboratory study that is high ______ will usually require the use of at least some amount of deception.

The te_______ confound is the non-experimental equivalent of the experimental term procedural confound.

In comparison with Tripletts' study involving highly trained bicyclists,his study involving fishing reels was probably higher in:

People are able to recognize the word "nurse" faster than usual if they have just been exposed to the word "doctor." This is an example of:

What advantage(s)does random assignment have over matching?

If you were interested in identifying the precise psychological mechanisms behind a well-documented phenomenon (e.g. ,the connection between heat and aggression),you would probably be better off conducting:

According to the text,the simplest way to avo________ confounds is to allow the manipulated variable (i.e. ,the variable of interest)to vary while holding all other variables constant.

Asch's laboratory studies involving conformity in people's judgments of the lengths of lines appear to have been low _____ but very high ______.

If Tanisha made use of random assignment,this means that every participant in her study:

Compared with other research designs (e.g. ,correlational designs),true experiments provide researchers with superior information about:

In comparison with an original study,a replication study usually:

According to the text,the two most important advantages of true experiments are that they:

Operational confounds represent a clear threat ______ validity.

Dr.Sekaquaptua conducted an experiment on the effects of alcohol consumption on helping behavior.To make certain that participants in her sober and intoxicated conditions were,in fact,sober and intoxicated,she measured her participants' blood alcohol levels using a breathalyzer.This assessment of blood alcohol levels was a:

Isen and Levin's (1972)study involved giving people cookies to put them in good moods to see if they would be more willing to help a student in distress.What type of confound did this introduce into the experiment?

In addition to the use of manipulation,true experiments must also make use _______.

In which of the following ways is noise different than confounds?

_______are important because they identify the limiting conditions of a specific theory.