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SE 10 Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A student who believes that his or her performance on tests is influenced by wearing a lucky hat is using the method of ____. | Tenacity |
| Which method of acquiring knowledge is being used by students who are learning from teachers and textbooks? | Authority |
| Patty just found out she is pregnant and tells everyone that she has a feeling she will have a girl. In this case, Patty is using the method of ____. | Intuition |
| Last year Tomas and Jamie were both too short to ride the rollercoaster. Jamie went this year and was tall enough. Because Tomas is taller, he thinks that he will be able to ride the rollercoaster as well. He is using the ___ to answer his question. | Rational method |
| An artist tries putting a freshly painted canvas outside during a rainstorm to see how the painting will change from the pattern of the raindrops. Which method of acquiring knowledge is she using? | Empirical method |
| When people make an observation, then form a hypothesis that explains the observation, and then make more observations to test the credibility of the hypothesis, they are using the ____. | Scientific method |
| What kind of reasoning uses a general statement to make conclusions about specific examples? | Deduction |
| What kind of reasoning uses a few specific observations to produce a statement about a larger possible set of observations? | Induction |
| Publicly repeating a study by copying the methods exactly is referred to as ___. | Replication |
| While driving, you notice that you seem to encounter more impatient and rude people on the road than you do in person, and you wonder why that would be the case. This is an example of getting research ideas from ____. | casual observation |
| The purpose of an operational definition is to ____. | provide a definition and a method for measuring a concept |
| If people score high on one measure and also score high on another measure, there is ____. | a positive relationship between the two measures |
| If people score high on one measure and score low on another measure, there is ____ . | a negative relationship between the two measures |
| Research results indicate that the more servings of red meat eat from age 15 to 25, the higher their cholesterol scores will be at age 60. This is an example of a ____ relationship between variables. | Positive |
| A measurement procedure is valid if it ____. | measures what you intend it to measure |
| A researcher developed a new intelligence test for elementary kids. However, he fears that the test scores may be measuring the children’s reading ability. To show that the test is measuring intelligence and not reading, he must demonstrate ____validity. | divergent |
| A student’s score on a measurement of impulse control allows researchers to form an accurate expectation for how well the student will control his or her impulses in class. This test illustrates ____ validity. | predictive |
| What is demonstrated by showing that the test scores measured today for a group of individuals are nearly identical to the scores obtained with the same measurement procedure last week? | test-retest |
| Two observers record similar observations on a behavioral rating scale for a group of children they are watching. The researchers have established what kind of reliability? | inter-rater |
| A teacher separates the students in his class into high, medium, and low reading skill groups. What scale of measurement is being used to create the groups? | ordinal |
| After measuring a group of individuals, a researcher finds that Jared’s score is three times greater than Jasmin’s score. These measurements must come from a(n) ____ scale. | ratio |
| What additional information is obtained by measuring on an interval scale as compared to an ordinal scale? | the size of the differences |
| Using a PET scan to measure brain activity while participants solve mathematics problems is an example of using what modality of measurement? | physiological |
| Which question can be addressed with a descriptive strategy? | What is the average number of hours of sleep that a typical college student gets each night? |
| A research study records a score measuring Facebook use and happiness level for each individual in a group of 20-y/o women. The study intends to determine whether there is a relationship between the two. This study is best characterized as ____ research. | Correlational |
| Which question is best addressed with the experimental strategy? | Does increasing the hours of sleep college students get each night cause an increase in GPA? |
| Which research strategy attempts to address questions about cause-and-effect relationships but fails to produce an unambiguous answer because the study contains a flaw? | Quasi-experimental |
| A research study evaluates the relationship between self-esteem and birth order position by measuring self-esteem for each individual of first-born boys, and then comparing with self-esteem scores for later-born boys. This study uses ____ strategy. | Non-experimental |
| Deciding whether a study will compare different groups of individuals or examine changes within the same group of individuals involves a decision about the research ____. | design |
| The degree to which your research results generalize beyond the specific characteristics of your study refers to ____. | external validity |
| A study is ____ if it produces only one explanation for the results. | internally valid |
| A researcher is concerned that experimental results obtained with college students may not apply to adults in the general population. This illustrates a concern with ____ validity. | external validity |
| A researcher finds that a group who received relaxation training had lower exam anxiety scores than a group who was not trained. However, he suspects that the difference may be due to them being generally smarter. This study has a problem with ____. | internal validity |
| A(n) ____variable is a variable in a study that is not being directly studied. | extraneous |
| Dr. Ziser conducts an experiment on life satisfaction using participants above the age of 80. Because she cannot include all people above the age of 80, she will select what is known as a ____. | sample |
| A study examining the relationship between humor and memory compares memory performance scores for one group (male) presented with humorous sentences and a second group (female) presented with nonhumorous sentences. Here, gender is a(n) ____ variable. | independent |
| A researcher tests whether female preschoolers prefer sweetened or unsweetened cereal by measuring how much they eat of each. The children ate more sweetened cereal. Is the conclusion that they prefer sweetened cereal justified? | No; this conclusion is not justified. Time-related variables could threaten the results. |
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