Question 1

A psychologist monitors changes in the subject's heart rate as the subject watches a violent movie.The data collection technique being used is

Accepted Answer

A)  direct observation. 
B)  psychological testing. 
C)  physiological recording. 
D)  archival records.

Question 2

Dr Ebrahim wants to study attachment patterns in single-parent families.The first step in her scientific investigation would be to

Accepted Answer

A)  design the study and select the research method. 
B)  analyse the data. 
C)  formulate a testable hypothesis. 
D)  collect the data.

Question 3

A researcher who is conducting an opinion survey asks viewers who are watching a political debate to dial a 0-800 number and record their opinion to the "question of the day." In this case the researcher is likely to have

Accepted Answer

A)  a representative sample. 
B)  a random sample. 
C)  a biased sample. 
D)  a random population.

Question 4

Descriptive/correlational research methods broaden the scope of phenomena that psychologists are able to study.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Inferential statistics help us determine whether ____ played a role in an experiment.

Accepted Answer

A)  chance 
B)  a dependent variable 
C)  a normal distribution 
D)  genetics

Question 6

Your grade point average is an example of which measure of central tendency?

Accepted Answer

A)  median 
B)  mean 
C)  mode 
D)  midpoint

Question 7

Dr Ahmed predicts that people will act more aggressively during the heat waves of summer than they will during the cold spells of winter.This suggests that Dr Ahmed believes that temperature and level of aggression are

Accepted Answer

A)  negatively correlated. 
B)  independent variables. 
C)  uncorrelated. 
D)  positively correlated.

Question 8

Publication of research findings is extremely important to the scientific method because

Accepted Answer

A)  it allows for critique and self-correction. 
B)  it brings recognition to the research worker. 
C)  it forces the writer to be clear. 
D)  the royalties help the researcher pay for the research.

Question 9

Salma is a graduate student who is observing children playing together after watching a film.She knows that some children saw a film that contained graphic scenes of violence and some children saw a non-violent film, but she doesn't know which film each child she is observing watched.In this case, Salma is recording data for

Accepted Answer

A)  a double-blind research study. 
B)  a study with two independent variables. 
C)  an unethical research study. 
D)  a correlational study with confounded variables.

Question 10

In order to generalise from a sample to the larger population, the sample must include at least 5% of the population under investigation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Placebo effects and experimenter bias both show that personal experience can be ____________________.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

If we were to measure the height and weight of 100 adult women, we would find that these two measures are

Accepted Answer

A)  uncorrelated. 
B)  increasingly correlated. 
C)  negatively correlated. 
D)  positively correlated.

Question 13

The principal disadvantage of the descriptive/correlational research method is

Accepted Answer

A)  because of practical or ethical reasons they cannot be used to study some research questions. 
B)  since researchers cannot control variables of interest, conclusions concerning cause and effect relationships are not appropriate. 
C)  they do not allow the researcher to describe behaviour. 
D)  they frequently observe behaviour in artificial situations.

Question 14

IQ score, age, weight, grade point average, and income are all examples of

Accepted Answer

A)  constants. 
B)  variables. 
C)  correlations. 
D)  statistics.

Question 15

When clinical psychologists do case studies of their clients for diagnostic purposes they are conducting empirical research.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

When research results are said to be statistically significant it means that

Accepted Answer

A)  the probability that the observed findings are due to chance is very low. 
B)  the observed findings are important. 
C)  the observed findings are interesting. 
D)  the observed findings and both important and interesting.

Question 17

A correlation between two variables exists when scores on one variable

Accepted Answer

A)  are different from the scores on the second variable. 
B)  cause or determine the scores on the second variable. 
C)  are related to scores on the second variable. 
D)  are unrelated to scores on the second variable.

Question 18

Describe why scientific research methods are important to psychologists.

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Question 19

In psychology, the best research method to use to develop a cause-and-effect explanation is the correlational method.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Manipulating a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observing the changes in a second variable defines

Accepted Answer

A)  the testing approach. 
B)  the survey approach. 
C)  the experimental approach. 
D)  naturalistic observation.

Exam 2: Research Methods in Psychology

A psychologist monitors changes in the subject's heart rate as the subject watches a violent movie.The data collection technique being used is

Dr Ebrahim wants to study attachment patterns in single-parent families.The first step in her scientific investigation would be to

A researcher who is conducting an opinion survey asks viewers who are watching a political debate to dial a 0-800 number and record their opinion to the "question of the day." In this case the researcher is likely to have

Descriptive/correlational research methods broaden the scope of phenomena that psychologists are able to study.

Inferential statistics help us determine whether ____ played a role in an experiment.

Your grade point average is an example of which measure of central tendency?

Dr Ahmed predicts that people will act more aggressively during the heat waves of summer than they will during the cold spells of winter.This suggests that Dr Ahmed believes that temperature and level of aggression are

Publication of research findings is extremely important to the scientific method because

In order to generalise from a sample to the larger population, the sample must include at least 5% of the population under investigation.

Placebo effects and experimenter bias both show that personal experience can be ____________________.

If we were to measure the height and weight of 100 adult women, we would find that these two measures are

The principal disadvantage of the descriptive/correlational research method is

IQ score, age, weight, grade point average, and income are all examples of

When clinical psychologists do case studies of their clients for diagnostic purposes they are conducting empirical research.

When research results are said to be statistically significant it means that

A correlation between two variables exists when scores on one variable

Describe why scientific research methods are important to psychologists.

In psychology, the best research method to use to develop a cause-and-effect explanation is the correlational method.

Manipulating a variable under carefully controlled conditions and observing the changes in a second variable defines