LSU PSYC CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
FULL REVIEW PACK
●● research consumer
Answer: do research and apply the knowledge and new information to
their types of work
●● professors, scientists, research assistants
Answer: Give 3 examples of research producers
●● CEO, policy makers, students, practitioners, everyone else
Answer: Give 3 examples of research consumers
●● for psychology courses
reading news stories based on research
for your future career
Answer: What is the importance of being good consumers of research?
●● For coursework in psychology
for graduate school
for working in a research lab
,Answer: What is the importance of being good producers of research?
●● Empiricists
Answer: theorists who argue that perceptual abilities are learned from
experiences
●● empiricists
Answer: Scientists are __________________
●● theory-data
Answer: Scientists test theories: the _______________-_____________
cycle
●● applied; basic
Answer: Scientists tackle ______________ and ____________
problems
●● Empiricism
Answer: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that
science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
●● empiricism
Answer: the philosophical founding block of science
,●● empirical method
empirical research
Answer: Other names for empiricism
●● intuition and observation
Answer: How did people "know" before science?
●● Theory-Data Cycle
Answer: scientists collect data to test, change, or update their theories
●● theory, research questions, research design, hypotheses, data
Answer: Give the order of the theory-data cycle
●● to disconfirm theories or test competing theories
Answer: Empiricism is about using DATA (observation) to what?
●● theory
Answer: A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of
data
●● research question
, Answer: A question that can be answered by an experiment or series of
experiments
●● research design
Answer: specifies which research questions must be answered, how and
when the data will be gathered, and how the data will be analyzed
●● hypotheses
Answer: A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
●● Supporting
Answer: (Supporting/nonsupporting) ____________________ data
strengthen the theory.
●● Nonsupporting
Answer: (Supporting/nonsupporting) ____________________ data lead
to revised theories or improved research design
●● data
falsifiable
parsimony
weight of the evidence
Answer: Good scientific theories are:
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
FULL REVIEW PACK
●● research consumer
Answer: do research and apply the knowledge and new information to
their types of work
●● professors, scientists, research assistants
Answer: Give 3 examples of research producers
●● CEO, policy makers, students, practitioners, everyone else
Answer: Give 3 examples of research consumers
●● for psychology courses
reading news stories based on research
for your future career
Answer: What is the importance of being good consumers of research?
●● For coursework in psychology
for graduate school
for working in a research lab
,Answer: What is the importance of being good producers of research?
●● Empiricists
Answer: theorists who argue that perceptual abilities are learned from
experiences
●● empiricists
Answer: Scientists are __________________
●● theory-data
Answer: Scientists test theories: the _______________-_____________
cycle
●● applied; basic
Answer: Scientists tackle ______________ and ____________
problems
●● Empiricism
Answer: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that
science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
●● empiricism
Answer: the philosophical founding block of science
,●● empirical method
empirical research
Answer: Other names for empiricism
●● intuition and observation
Answer: How did people "know" before science?
●● Theory-Data Cycle
Answer: scientists collect data to test, change, or update their theories
●● theory, research questions, research design, hypotheses, data
Answer: Give the order of the theory-data cycle
●● to disconfirm theories or test competing theories
Answer: Empiricism is about using DATA (observation) to what?
●● theory
Answer: A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of
data
●● research question
, Answer: A question that can be answered by an experiment or series of
experiments
●● research design
Answer: specifies which research questions must be answered, how and
when the data will be gathered, and how the data will be analyzed
●● hypotheses
Answer: A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
●● Supporting
Answer: (Supporting/nonsupporting) ____________________ data
strengthen the theory.
●● Nonsupporting
Answer: (Supporting/nonsupporting) ____________________ data lead
to revised theories or improved research design
●● data
falsifiable
parsimony
weight of the evidence
Answer: Good scientific theories are:
