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A Type I error is known as which of the following? - Answers A false positive
Sasha believes that she is a nice person. To confirm this, she asks all her friends whether she is a nice person; they all agree that she is. Sasha concludes that she ...
PSY 3213 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed
A Type I error is known as which of the following? - Answers A false positive
Sasha believes that she is a nice person. To confirm this, she asks all her friends whether she is a nice
person; they all agree that she is. Sasha concludes that she is a nice person and says she has evidence of
it. However, she does not ask any of her enemies whether they think she is a nice person. This is an
example of which of the following? - Answers Cherry-picking of evidence
Dr. Hoda measures job satisfaction and number of years of education. In examining her scatterplot, she
sees that the cloud of points has no slope. This indicates which type of relationship? - Answers Zero
association
Which of the following validities is NOT examined in all research claims? - Answers Internal validity
Which of the following is an association claim? - Answers "Owning a dog is related to higher life
satisfaction."
A common finding in the study of aggression is that exposure to television is associated with increased
aggressive behavior in children. You know this relationship may not be causal because you are not sure
which occurred first—watching television or being aggressive. You are questioning which of the
following rules of causation? - Answers The rule of temporal precedence
Which of the following is true of operational definitions? - Answers The specification of operational
definitions is one of the creative aspects of the research process.
Establishing construct validity is most important for which of the following? - Answers An abstract
concept
Which of the following is a reason NOT to use observational operationalizations? - Answers You need a
lot of participants
How many subcategories of quantitative variables exist? Hint: These are the main ways a variable can be
operationalized. - Answers Three
There is only one correct way to operationalize any given variable. - Answers False
Which of the following is NOT an example of physiological measurement? - Answers Number of panic
attacks a patient reports
Hosea is studying the relationship between caffeine consumption and problem-solving ability. Which of
the following is a categorical way to operationalize caffeine consumption? - Answers Whether the
participant drank a soda in the 24 hours prior to the study
Establishing construct validity would probably be most important for which of the following? - Answers
A measure of religiosity
, Todd is also studying the effect of popularity on academic success for his research methods project. He
decides to measure popularity by asking each elementary school student to tell him how many friends
he or she has. He assumes that more friends means the student is more popular. Which of the following
best describes this variable? - Answers A ratio scale of measurement
Operational definitions are abstract ideas. - Answers False
Why are convergent and discriminant validity often evaluated together? - Answers Both involve
collecting information from a lot of psychological measures of theoretical interest.
Producer of research - Answers Actually designing, conducting, analyzing data
Consumer of Research - Answers Using research to learn, understand problems
Which of the following is an example of producing research? - Answers
Which of the following is an example of consuming research? - Answers
Via empiricism only - Answers Basic and applied problems
Features of good theories - Answers Supported by the data
Exhibits parsimony (is parsimonious)
Falsifiability (is falsifiable)
Parsimony - Answers Given two competing theories that make the same predictions (i.e., all else equal),
the simpler theory should be chosen
Occam's razor
Applied Research - Answers Goal for findings to be directly applied to the solution of a practical problem
Efficacy of one medical treatment versus another
Use of LSD and psychotropic drugs is linked to higher incidents of mental illness? - Answers False. LSD
use lower rates of mental illness.
Why shouldn't you trust experience as a source of information? - Answers Experience has no
comparison group • Experience is confounded
Pop-up Principle (Availability heuristic): - Answers Things that come easily to mind guide our thinking
Present/Present Bias: - Answers We focus on what is present and ignore what is absent
Cherry-picking the evidence - Answers we seek and accept only the evidence that supports what we
already think
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