Psych 225 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers

A researcher brings a participant into the lab for a study on stress in college students. The student feels uncomfortable with the experiment, so asks to leave. The researcher tells the student they need to participate in the study otherwise they will suffer negative consequences. The influence the researcher is using is called _______. coercion Darren is studying caffeine's affect on anxiety. He recruits and randomly assigns college students at the end of the semester. He gives them either zero, one, or two cups of coffee and has them take a mood survey at the end of each day for a week. He finds no correlation between amount of caffeine and anxiety levels. Which validity should he reconsider to make a causal claim? internal validity Madeline notices a connection between having the TV on in the background, and earning high scores on her research methods quizzes. She hypothesizes that the background noise from the TV causes her to score higher on the quizzes. After making the connection, Madeline fails to notice all of the times when she scores low on the quizzes while the TV on in the background, and the times when she scores high on the quizzes without the TV on. Which of the following is Madeline experiencing? a) Confirmation bias b) Bias blind spot c) Present/present bias d) Availability heuristic present/present bias What is the difference between present/present bias and availability heuristic? A. Present/present bias is what one focuses on and is guided by because it comes to mind easily, and availability heuristic is a finding not expected to explain all cases all of the time. B. Present/present bias is paying attention to the information which is there and ignoring what is absent, and availability heuristic is something one focuses on and is guided by because it comes to mind easily. C. Present/present bias is the tendency to look only at information that agrees with what we already believe, and availability heuristic is paying attention to the information which is there and ignoring what is absent.