Which of the following are useful methods for studying language in pre-verbal infants? - Correct Answer
-Preferential looking
-Habituation and dishabituation
Gilder and Heerey (2018) investigated "the role of experimenter belief in social priming." In a series of
experiments, they manipulated participants' 'social priming' condition but they also manipulated the
condition that the research assistants *thought* the participants were in. They then investigated
whether participants' performance was affected by their actual condition or by the condition that the
research assistants thought they were in. Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct Answer
-If researcher belief had been confounded with participant condition, this would have been a threat to
internal validity.
-It used a double-blind design.
-It demonstrates that some instances of "social priming" are actually driven by observer expectancy
effects.
Which of the following are true of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)? - Correct Answer -It is
responsible for ensuring the rights and welfare of participants.
-It must approve all human-subjects research
In the reading by Brian Hayes on "The Math of Segregation," he describes a simple model of racial
segregation, first introduced by Thomas Schelling. Which of the following are true of the model? -
Correct Answer -The model's qualitative behavior (amount of segregation) is sensitive to the value of
the "tolerance" parameter that governs individual decisions.
-The model is an Agent Based Model
Which of the following are examples of the "habituation and dishabituation" method? - Correct Answer
-A researcher repeatedly presents images of a yellow car until the child stops showing interest, and then
the researcher presents an image of a red car of observers whether the child regains interest.
-A researcher plays the sound 'da' until the child gets bored and then plays the sound 'ba' to see if they
notice.
, You want to study the relationship between motivation and school success. You recruit participants
from three populations: elementary school children; disabled adults in college; and adults in prison who
are pursuing college degrees online. Which of the following are true about the ethics of your research? -
Correct Answer Children cannot legally give consent, so you must
this
adult
You decide to investigate the acceptability of negative concord (a.k.a., 'double negatives') among native
speakers of English who grew up in Merced. You send out surveys that ask people to indicate how
acceptable they consider different sentences. Example sentences include: "I won't do it no more," "They
didn't have no car," "Nobody said anything." Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct
Answer -This survey allows us to document whether native English speakers in Merced speak a variety
(or dialect) of English that differs from Standard American English.
-This is an example of a quantitative survey.
-Acceptability judgments can be unnatural for non-linguists
You are investigating how people sing karaoke. You suspect that most karaoke singers don't even know
the song's melody they just try to follow along by coupling the pitch of their singing with the current
pitch of the music. To show that your proposal can account for observed karaoke singing, you build a
simple computational model of a karaoke singer. In this model, the karaoke singer has expectations
about what pitches are likely (not super high, not super low). Whenever they're about to sing, they
perceive the current pitch of the music. They combine what they perceived with their prior expectations
to generate a belief about the song's actual current pitch. They then sing the next line of the song in that
pitch. Which of the following are true? - Correct Answer -If this model successfully generated the kind
of singing that is observed in real karaoke, this would indicate that the proposed mechanism could be
involved in karaoke singing.
-This is a descriptive model that is trying to reproduce a known behavior
In the Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo assigned volunteers to be 'guards' or 'prisoners.'
Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct Answer -It was unethical because participants
were not warned of foreseeable mental anguish.
-It was unethical because the study continued after participants began to experience unexpected harm.
In the reading by Halberda et al (2008), the authors investigated the relationship between "individual
differences in non-verbal number acuity" and "maths achievement." They found that they could predict
-Preferential looking
-Habituation and dishabituation
Gilder and Heerey (2018) investigated "the role of experimenter belief in social priming." In a series of
experiments, they manipulated participants' 'social priming' condition but they also manipulated the
condition that the research assistants *thought* the participants were in. They then investigated
whether participants' performance was affected by their actual condition or by the condition that the
research assistants thought they were in. Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct Answer
-If researcher belief had been confounded with participant condition, this would have been a threat to
internal validity.
-It used a double-blind design.
-It demonstrates that some instances of "social priming" are actually driven by observer expectancy
effects.
Which of the following are true of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)? - Correct Answer -It is
responsible for ensuring the rights and welfare of participants.
-It must approve all human-subjects research
In the reading by Brian Hayes on "The Math of Segregation," he describes a simple model of racial
segregation, first introduced by Thomas Schelling. Which of the following are true of the model? -
Correct Answer -The model's qualitative behavior (amount of segregation) is sensitive to the value of
the "tolerance" parameter that governs individual decisions.
-The model is an Agent Based Model
Which of the following are examples of the "habituation and dishabituation" method? - Correct Answer
-A researcher repeatedly presents images of a yellow car until the child stops showing interest, and then
the researcher presents an image of a red car of observers whether the child regains interest.
-A researcher plays the sound 'da' until the child gets bored and then plays the sound 'ba' to see if they
notice.
, You want to study the relationship between motivation and school success. You recruit participants
from three populations: elementary school children; disabled adults in college; and adults in prison who
are pursuing college degrees online. Which of the following are true about the ethics of your research? -
Correct Answer Children cannot legally give consent, so you must
this
adult
You decide to investigate the acceptability of negative concord (a.k.a., 'double negatives') among native
speakers of English who grew up in Merced. You send out surveys that ask people to indicate how
acceptable they consider different sentences. Example sentences include: "I won't do it no more," "They
didn't have no car," "Nobody said anything." Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct
Answer -This survey allows us to document whether native English speakers in Merced speak a variety
(or dialect) of English that differs from Standard American English.
-This is an example of a quantitative survey.
-Acceptability judgments can be unnatural for non-linguists
You are investigating how people sing karaoke. You suspect that most karaoke singers don't even know
the song's melody they just try to follow along by coupling the pitch of their singing with the current
pitch of the music. To show that your proposal can account for observed karaoke singing, you build a
simple computational model of a karaoke singer. In this model, the karaoke singer has expectations
about what pitches are likely (not super high, not super low). Whenever they're about to sing, they
perceive the current pitch of the music. They combine what they perceived with their prior expectations
to generate a belief about the song's actual current pitch. They then sing the next line of the song in that
pitch. Which of the following are true? - Correct Answer -If this model successfully generated the kind
of singing that is observed in real karaoke, this would indicate that the proposed mechanism could be
involved in karaoke singing.
-This is a descriptive model that is trying to reproduce a known behavior
In the Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo assigned volunteers to be 'guards' or 'prisoners.'
Which of the following are true of this study? - Correct Answer -It was unethical because participants
were not warned of foreseeable mental anguish.
-It was unethical because the study continued after participants began to experience unexpected harm.
In the reading by Halberda et al (2008), the authors investigated the relationship between "individual
differences in non-verbal number acuity" and "maths achievement." They found that they could predict
