PSYC 2301 Exam 1 Questions And Answers With
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Matt's experiment was designed to find out if reading an entire chapter at once led to better test grades
than reading a section at a time over several days. The dependent variable in his experimental research
was ____ ANS The test grade
Dr. Sardonicus is studying the effectiveness of a new medication for anxiety, and he has found positive
results. Before assuming the medication is effective, it would be best to _______ ANS replicate the
study
Taffi believes that people who eat at Dairy Queen are overweight, so she decides to conduct a naturalistic
observation of people who eat at Dairy Queen. What should most concern us about Taffi's observations?
ANS Observer bias
Research on animals _____ ANS Must Minimize any discomfort
_____ is the most objective method known for acquiring knowledge. ANS
A case study would be the most appropriate method to investigate which of these topics? ANS The
development of a male baby raised as a female after a surgical error destroyed his penis
A counselor who takes the humanistic perspective would focus most on _____ ANS
What statement would most likely be made by Sigmund Freud? ANS Unconscious forces may
contain conflicts that can be a detriment to psychological health and development
The entire group of interest to researchers and the group to which they want to generalize their findings is
called the _____ ANS Population
What represents a replication? ANS Hunter repeated Joshs study as exactly as possible
, When the researcher's expectations influence participant's behavior and/or the researcher's interpretation
of the experimental results, it is called ________ ANS Experimenter bias
The ONLY research method that can identify cause-and-effect relationships between variables is _____
ANS the experimental method
A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated is called _______ ANS A
case study
A correlation coefficient represents two things: _____ and _____ ANS the strength; direction of the
relationship
Dr. Cullinan is conducting research in Kenya into the ways that mothers and their toddlers interact
throughout the day. Given the purpose of her study, it is most likely that she is engaged in ______ ANS
Naturalistic observation
Which would be true if the number of hours students spent watching TV is negatively correlated with
their grades in school? ANS Students who watch less TV would have the higher grades
Most experiments have a ______ group for purposes of comparison. This group is not given the treatment
or the same independent variable as the _____ group. ANS Control; experimental
If we were to design an experiment to test the hypothesis that aspirin removes headaches, the independent
variable would be ____ and the dependent variable would be _____ ANS aspirin; headaches
A researcher has conducted an experiment in which she assigned all of her students four hours of
homework the night before a test, in order to see what effect the extra stress has on test performance. The
study is flawed because the researcher did not include a(n) _____ ANS control group
A large study of heart disease that included white and African-American participants considered the age
and gender of the participants but not their socioeconomic status. The conclusion drawn by the
researchers was that being an African American male places you at greater risk for heart disease than
being a white male. The problem with this conclusion is that _____ ANS We can't tell if the variable
is race or socioeconomic status
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Matt's experiment was designed to find out if reading an entire chapter at once led to better test grades
than reading a section at a time over several days. The dependent variable in his experimental research
was ____ ANS The test grade
Dr. Sardonicus is studying the effectiveness of a new medication for anxiety, and he has found positive
results. Before assuming the medication is effective, it would be best to _______ ANS replicate the
study
Taffi believes that people who eat at Dairy Queen are overweight, so she decides to conduct a naturalistic
observation of people who eat at Dairy Queen. What should most concern us about Taffi's observations?
ANS Observer bias
Research on animals _____ ANS Must Minimize any discomfort
_____ is the most objective method known for acquiring knowledge. ANS
A case study would be the most appropriate method to investigate which of these topics? ANS The
development of a male baby raised as a female after a surgical error destroyed his penis
A counselor who takes the humanistic perspective would focus most on _____ ANS
What statement would most likely be made by Sigmund Freud? ANS Unconscious forces may
contain conflicts that can be a detriment to psychological health and development
The entire group of interest to researchers and the group to which they want to generalize their findings is
called the _____ ANS Population
What represents a replication? ANS Hunter repeated Joshs study as exactly as possible
, When the researcher's expectations influence participant's behavior and/or the researcher's interpretation
of the experimental results, it is called ________ ANS Experimenter bias
The ONLY research method that can identify cause-and-effect relationships between variables is _____
ANS the experimental method
A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated is called _______ ANS A
case study
A correlation coefficient represents two things: _____ and _____ ANS the strength; direction of the
relationship
Dr. Cullinan is conducting research in Kenya into the ways that mothers and their toddlers interact
throughout the day. Given the purpose of her study, it is most likely that she is engaged in ______ ANS
Naturalistic observation
Which would be true if the number of hours students spent watching TV is negatively correlated with
their grades in school? ANS Students who watch less TV would have the higher grades
Most experiments have a ______ group for purposes of comparison. This group is not given the treatment
or the same independent variable as the _____ group. ANS Control; experimental
If we were to design an experiment to test the hypothesis that aspirin removes headaches, the independent
variable would be ____ and the dependent variable would be _____ ANS aspirin; headaches
A researcher has conducted an experiment in which she assigned all of her students four hours of
homework the night before a test, in order to see what effect the extra stress has on test performance. The
study is flawed because the researcher did not include a(n) _____ ANS control group
A large study of heart disease that included white and African-American participants considered the age
and gender of the participants but not their socioeconomic status. The conclusion drawn by the
researchers was that being an African American male places you at greater risk for heart disease than
being a white male. The problem with this conclusion is that _____ ANS We can't tell if the variable
is race or socioeconomic status
