Exam 1 Review

Which of the following is NOT a component of good internal validity

What canon of science best differentiates scientific from religious ways of knowing

What piece of a research study includes a brief summary of the entire study?

Obtaining a representative sample is more important for evaluating a frequency claim.

The way in which a variable is concretely defined in the procedures of a study is called _______?

What type of descriptive graph is below?

Flipping a coin to put half the participants in Condition A and half in Condition B is an example of what?

Cat wants to run a true experiment to examine the relationship between music and mood. What sampling should be used?

What kind of design does the below scenario describe?

Questions on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) are significantly correlated with each other. This indicated high ____?

This term refers to a researcher's expectation for the results of their study

Jo has a masters of psychology and is certain she would not fall prey to confirmation bias. What type of bias is this?

Given that causal claims cannot be made in a correlational study, what type of validity is usually challenged?

What is reliability?

Frankie gains IRB approval to record interactions between siblings in a school lobby. What type of design is this?

What term refers to the tendency to forget to account for appropriate comparison groups?

Natasha asks students how often they exercise and evaluates if this is related to sleep. What is this research design?

This is the type of sampling used when researchers choose participants based on who is easiest to recruit.

Linda wants to study the independent variable parental warmth. What kind of definition is this?

What type of claim is: 39% of teens admit to texting while driving

What type of claim is: Countries with more butter have happier citizens

What is beneficence, as used in the Belmont Report?

BONUS QUESTION: The Flea experiment joke is a good example of poor ______ validity?

What kind of variable may offer an alternative explanation for an observed relationship between an IV and DV?

The tendency to rely on "vivid, recent, or memorable" information is known as the availability heuristic

James is running an experiment on whether mood effects performance on a memory test. What variable is the memory test?

Of the following, what is not a key characteristic of a good theory

Checking for a LACK of correlation between a scale measuring variable A and a scale measuring a different concept is?

What is respect for persons (or autonomy), as used in the Belmont Report?

One way empirical articles differ from popular press articles is the specificity of the description in the _____section.

If the independent variable is manipulated and then the dependent variable is measured, what is the research design?

Set of statements or principles explaining a group of facts or phenomena based on empirical data from multiple studies

Findings from the American National Election Survey tend to be low in internal validity but high in external validity.

Lindzey wants to study a rare condition in the population. What type of sampling would be best to use?

What type of survey question anwer is pictured below?

What is empiricism?

If you have a problem with the operationalization of study variables, you are criticizing this form of validity

In a correlational study, _______ claims cannot be made.

Two GSIs grade the same paper: one gives an A- and the other gives a D. They have demonstrated poor what?

American National Election Study uses what strategy of sampling? (hint: within homes within blocks within census tracts)

This canon of science suggests that we should prefer a simple explanation over a more complicated explanation.