RESEARCH METHODS FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!

What did the philosopher Rudolph Carnap have to say about human freedom of choice? - ANSWER The ability to make meaningful choices demands that events be orderly and predictable. According to Thomas Kuhn, it is generally a good thing for scientists to hang on to their pet theories tenaciously. Why? - ANSWER By vigorously advocating their theory, it won't be abandoned without a thorough test. What defines pseudoscience? - ANSWER They rely on anecdotal evidence for support, they cannot be adequately falsified, and they try to confuse the naive by associating with concepts from legitimate science. One of APA's general principles obligates researchers to continually weight the benefits and the cost of the research they complete. Which general principle is this? - ANSWER Beneficence and non-malefancence Woodworth's so called "Columbia Bible" was the first experimental psychology text to make a clear distinction between... - ANSWER Experimental and correlational research strategies Self esteem would be considered a manipulated independent variable if... - ANSWER A procedure was designed so that some people succeeded in a task (so they felt better about themselves) and others failed in a task (they felt worse about themselves) According to the arguments of Neisser (1976), compared to a laboratory research in which people learn lists of words and recall them, studies on topics such as eyewitness memory and the recall of high school Spanish have greater ecological validity. True or false? - ANSWER True.