PSY 200 Study Guide Exam 1 (Research Methods) UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSY 200 Study Guide Exam 1 (Research
Methods) UPDATED Actual Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER- studies ONE ENTITY in great detail.
Case Study (Pros) - CORRECT ANSWER- Only describes one entity well
Case Study (Cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- Cannot prove causation
Cannot te...
PSY 200 Study Guide Exam 1 (Research
Methods) UPDATED Actual Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔studies ONE ENTITY in great detail.
Case Study (Pros) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Only describes one entity well
Case Study (Cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cannot prove causation
Cannot test hypotheses
NO generalizability (you cannot apply the findings to other people).
Observer bias -you interpret the info in a biased way
Laborious and time-consuming to spend years watching someone.
Observational reactivity - People act differently when they know they are being watched.
naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔study the behavior in its natural
environment.
naturalistic observation (pros) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔You can prove that this behavior
does really occur in the real world (call high external validity).
naturalistic observation (cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cannot prove causation
Sample bias -the people you observe may have more extreme behaviors than the rest of the
population.
Observer bias -you interpret the info in a biased way
Laborious and time-consuming to spend years watching someone.
Observational reactivity - People act differently when they know they are being watched.
laboratory observation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔creating an artificial environment and
bring people in to observe what they do.
, Laboratory observation (pros) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Faster than waiting for it to occur
in the real world
Laboratory Observation (cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cannot prove causation
Sample bias -the people you observe may have more extreme behaviors than the rest of the
population.
Observer bias -you interpret the info in a biased way
Observational reactivity - People act differently when they know they are being watched.
The situation you create can be VERY ARTIFICAL (called low external validity)
correlational research - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔looking for relationships between
different variables.
Correlational Research (cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔correlation ≠ causation
Sample bias -the people who answer the survey may have more extreme behaviors than those
who don't.
Social desirability bias, malingering, and ignorance -easy for people to lie
Poor operationalization's -Getting the wording of the questions right is very difficult
experiment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Only study that can determine causation and
influence
1) randomly assign subjects to conditions
2) directly control the independent variable.
experiment (cons) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Expensive
Confound variables-any difference between the conditions (e.g. hot temperature in only one
of the rooms, bad smell in one room, noise outside one of the rooms) can cause the difference
in the outcome variable.
Experimenter bias -if the experimenter acts differently with one group than another, he
behavior may subtly influence the results in a biased way.
It can be hard to produce experimental realism (subjects become absorbed by the experiment)
and mundane realism (the experiment looks like real world situations).
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