Fall '21 Exam 2 Review

Pulling names out of a hat is an example of...

Studying a participant's neural activity as they are exposed to stimuli is an example of which approach to measurement?

Participants having the tendency to give "yes" or "agree" answers to questionnaires regardless of the question is called

A list of the population from which the sample will be drawn from is known as the..

Which type of sampling is usually feasible for psychological studies?

Conducting an interview in which you ask participants to report their self-esteem is an example of...

Participants having the tendency to give "no" or "disagree" answers to questionnaires despite the question is called

The chance of risk that the results of a statistical test do not fit the population is the...

Studying census data is an example of which approach to measurement?

Recruiting participants from your Psychology 102 class is what kind of sampling?

Which of the following is a non-directional hypothesis?

When statistical significance is found we ____ the ____ hypothesis.

To confirm the results of a study are not found are due to chance, psychologists want an alpha of less than..

Which of the following is true about contrived observation.

Rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true is known as a...

Asking a participant to recruit their friends or family to participate in your study is..

Studying the behavior of children as they play in a classroom is an example of which approach to measurement?

Picking every 3rd person in line is an example of...

Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false is a...

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using questionnaires for self-report approach to measurement.

In ____ samples, everyone in the population has a chance of participating in the study.

Which of the following is an example of a double barreled question?

Z-scores always have a standard deviation of ___.

Z-scores always have a mean of ___.

Finding a sample with only women that are 20-25 years old to participate in a study is what kind of sampling?

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of archival data?

Which of the following is NOT non-probability sampling?

Dividing the U.S. into geographical groups and picking from the groups is what kind of sampling?

Which best describes simple random assignment?

Dividing college students into groups of the same major and picking participants from the groups is...

What is the foundation of inferential statistics?

Plants exposed to red light will grow better than plants exposed to blue light is a..

Which of the following is not probability sampling?

Plants receiving blue light grow the same amount as plants receiving red light is a..

A z-scores are a way of comparing individuals' scores to the mean and to....

Participants responding in a way that may make them seem more flattering is an example of

When there is no statistically significant results, we ___ the ____ hypothesis.