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General Psychology Exam 1Name: _____________Yashar Garcia_______________________________________Chapter 2:_____1)A________ is a well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observedPhenomena.A. conclusionB.hypothesisC. operational definitionD. theory
_____2) Which of the following isnota characteristic of a good hypothesis?
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______3) Dr. Mattar is interested in knowing more about brain injury to the occipital cortex, andhe studies patients individually in order to gain in-depth knowledge about their behaviors. Thesestudies would best be described as ________.
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. _____4) ________ research studies the same groups of participants over time.
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_______5) A group of preschool-age children are enrolled in a study that plans to follow themover time in order to assess behaviors and other characteristics that may predict laterdevelopment of schizophrenia. This is an example of a________ design.A. cross sectionalB. experimentalC.longitudinalD. survey
_________6) The ________ group does not get the experimental treatment.
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__________7) The ________ is controlled by the experimenter.
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__________8)Research describing a link between childhood vaccines and autism has been________.
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_______9)________ refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result.A. generalizabilityB.reliabilityC. statistical significanceD. validity
_____10) ________ refers to the ability of an instrument or tool to accurately measure what it issupposed to measure.
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In a ________ study, both the researchers and the participants are unaware of the group assignments.
Which of the following research designs will allow cause-and-effect conclusions?
Stan and Jenny are in a psychology course that requires them to repeat an experiment that researchers have conducted in the past, in order to determine whether they produce the same results. This is called ________.
A psychologist believes that college students who sleep 8 hours each night achieve better grades on their exams than those sleep less than this amount. He conducts a study to determine if this belief is true. What is the Independent Variable (IV) in this study?
The Dependent Variable (DV) in the previous question would be the:
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good hypothesis?
Dr. X wishes to study how college students interact in the student union. Which research method should he use?
________ means that there is a relationship between two or more variables.
________ research studies the same groups of participants over time.
Which of the following is the strongest correlation?
Dr. Mattar is interested in knowing more about brain injury to the occipital cortex, and he studies patients individually in order to gain in-depth knowledge about their behaviors. These studies would best be described as ________.
The ________ group does not get the experimental treatment.
The belief that strange behavior is linked to the occurrence of a full moon is an example of a(n) ________.
A psychologist wishes to ensure that both his experimental group and control group are as similar as possible (e.g., having equal numbers of males and females). He can achieve this by using:
A(n) ________ is a well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena.
________ research uses past records or data sets to investigate research questions or to look for patterns or relationships.
Scientific knowledge is advanced through a process known as ________.
An ________ (IRB) reviews research that is conducted using human participants.
Institutional Review Board
A researcher wishes to study people’s attitudes toward certain political candidates. Which research method would be used?
Research on ________ subjects must always involve ________.
human; obtaining informed consent