psych chapter 1
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| show | the relationship between variables.
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| show | People might be harmed as a result of their being observed.
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| As a college student you will probably conduct what kind of research? | show 🗑
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| Scientists are obligated to publish their results in books, journals, internet, press, or any of the above? | show 🗑
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| show | Not due to chance.
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| You should read a book when: | show 🗑
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| Why should scientists do experiments? | show 🗑
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| Why can't theories be tested? | show 🗑
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| show | Falsify ideas.
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| Control is problematic because it limits the: | show 🗑
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| What differentiates science from all other ways of knowing? | show 🗑
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| show | Theories.
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| show | An infinite amount.
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| show | An infinite number.
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| Creationism and intelligent designs are not scientific because: | show 🗑
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| What enables predictions but does not test them? | show 🗑
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| What is wrong with intuition as a way of knowing. | show 🗑
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| show | Explain why something occurred.
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| Correlational research is most useful for purposes of | show 🗑
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| The enduring traditions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a large group of people constitutes their | show 🗑
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| show | better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among children.
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| What is most likely to inhibit critical thinking? | show 🗑
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| To discover the extent to which economic status can be used to predict political preferences, researchers are most likely to use | show 🗑
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| Statistics are tools that help us to avoid | show 🗑
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| show | 6.
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| show | perceiving order in random events.
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| show | control.
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| show | psychological knowledge can be used for destructive purposes.
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| show | ethics of placing the well-being of humans above that of animals.
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| Ethical principles developed by the American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Society urge psychological investigators to | show 🗑
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| The scientific attitude of humility is most likely to be undermined by | show 🗑
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| show | experimentation; naturalistic observation
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| An experiment was designed to study the potential impact of alcohol consumption on emotional stability. A specification of the procedures used to measure emotional stability illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | case studies
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| Seven members of a Girl Scout troop report the following individual earnings from their sale of candy: $4, $1, $7, $6, $8, $2, and $7. In this distribution of individual earnings | show 🗑
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| show | observing representative samples.
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| Which of the following might be a functionalist theory? | show 🗑
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| Some don't drink alchohol, others consume three beers. They are then placed behind the wheel of a driving simulator and their actions monitored. This is done to test the hypothesis that driving skill is reduced by alchohol. This study is an example of: | show 🗑
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| show | 3
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| show | control.
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| show | –0.12
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| Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion? | show 🗑
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| show | independent variables.
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| show | +0.50
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| University of Texas students were fitted with belt-worn tape recorders for up to four days so that researchers could sample their daily activities. The researchers employed a scientific method known as | show 🗑
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| When you read a bar graph, it is most important for you to | show 🗑
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| show | random sequences of events often don't look random.
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| show | +0.60
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| To provide a baseline against which they can evaluate the effects of a specific treatment, experimenters make use of a(n) | show 🗑
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| A lopsided distribution of scores in which the mean is much larger than both the mode and median is said to be | show 🗑
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| Which technique involves repeating the essence of an earlier research study with different participants and in different circumstances? | show 🗑
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| Akira dreamed that a handsome young man she had met the previous day asked her for a date. When he actually did call for a date several days later, Akira concluded that dreams accurately predict future events. Her belief best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | naturalistic observation.
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| show | predictions.
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| Replication of a research study is most likely to be facilitated by | show 🗑
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| Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to distinguish between | show 🗑
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| show | When looking at a rose, people will notice the color, shape and size of the bloom.
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| show | Having been rewarded for studying, people will study more.
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| show | similar processes often underlie animal and human behavior.
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| show | mean
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| A researcher would be most likely to discover a positive correlation between | show 🗑
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| To better understand how brain malfunctions influence behavior, Dr. Mosher extensively and carefully observes and questions two stroke victims. Which research method is Dr. Mosher using? | show 🗑
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| Seven members of a boys' club reported the following individual earnings from their sale of cookies: $2, $9, $8, $10, $4, $9, and $7. In this distribution of individual earnings | show 🗑
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| show | range
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| Psychological differences between the genders are | show 🗑
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| Formulating testable hypotheses before conducting research is most directly useful for restraining a thinking error known as | show 🗑
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| show | the amount of alcohol consumed.
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| To assess reactions to a proposed tuition hike at her school, Ariana sent a survey to every fifteenth person in the registrar's alphabetical listing of all currently enrolled students. Ariana is ensuring that her survey results are accurate by using | show 🗑
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| As the size of a representative sample increases, the ________ of that sample is most likely to decrease. | show 🗑
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| The most accurate way of assessing the impact of hormone replacement therapy on women's health is by means of | show 🗑
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| show | the well-being of cats than the well-being of mice.
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| To learn about the TV viewing habits of all the children attending Oakbridge School, Professor DeVries randomly selected and interviewed 50 of the school's students. In this instance, all the children attending the school are considered to be a(n) | show 🗑
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| The percentage of students whose average grades fall into various performance levels could be represented on a | show 🗑
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| Approximately 68 percent of the cases represented by the normal curve fall within ________ standard deviation(s) from the mean. | show 🗑
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| Students who have no exams for the next two weeks are compared with those who are facing an exam tomorrow. They do not know that they are being observed in this | show 🗑
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| show | People will notice many elements of things presented to them.
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| show | Jordan.
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| show | sample; population
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| show | placebo
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| show | hindsight bias.
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| In an experiment designed to study the effectiveness of a new drug for treating diabetes, research participants who receive a placebo have been assigned to the ________ group. | show 🗑
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| show | mode
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| Professor O'Brian has used correlational evidence to reach a potentially incorrect conclusion about a cause-effect relationship. Questioning the validity of drawing this conclusion from the evidence best illustrates | show 🗑
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| Alexandra is told the value of cosmetic surgery for boosting self-esteem. Belinda is told that the esteem-enhancing value of cosmetic surgery is bad for self-esteem. Neither are surprised. This best illustrates the power of | show 🗑
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| In a test of the effects of cigarette smoking on physical health and development, groups of monkeys were raised in either a smoke-free or smokeinfested environment. Monkeys in the smoke-infested environment were assigned to the _______ group. | show 🗑
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| A statement describing how a researcher manipulates an independent variable is known as a(n) | show 🗑
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| show | range
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| The placebo effect best illustrates the impact of ________ on feelings and behaviors. | show 🗑
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| show | mean
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| show | The probability is the same at all three hospitals.
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| show | random sampling
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| show | interpersonal attraction.
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| show | People behave in ways that helps them get things they need or want.
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| Students who have no exams for the next two weeks are compared with those who are facing an exam tomorrow. They do not know that they are being observed in this | show 🗑
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| show | the experiment.
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| The transmission of political practices and religious customs from one generation to the next best illustrates the importance of | show 🗑
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| show | skepticism.
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| To assess the effectiveness of flu vaccine for county residents, Mr. Carlson wants to administer vaccine injections to all county residents rather than give half of them a placebo injection. Mr. Carlson is most clearly underestimating the importance of | show 🗑
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| show | discerning human similarities and differences.
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| To discover the extent to which economic status can be used to predict political preferences, researchers are most likely to use | show 🗑
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| Which research method assesses how well one variable predicts another without specifying a cause and effect relationship between the variables? | show 🗑
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| The standard deviation is the square root of the average squared deviation of scores from the | show 🗑
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| Because she had a serious traffic accident on Friday the 13th of last month, Felicia is convinced that all Friday the 13ths will bring bad luck. Felicia's belief best illustrates | show 🗑
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| When provided with the unscrambled solutions to anagrams, people underestimate the difficulty of solving the anagrams. This best illustrates | show 🗑
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| A survey showed that kids with high self-esteem picture God as kind and loving, kids with lower self-esteem tend to see God as angry. The researchers thought that the kids's self-esteem had influenced their views of God. This illustrates | show 🗑
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| Incorrectly interpreting correlation as evidence of causation is best avoided by making use of | show 🗑
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| show | frequency of scores at each level of some measure.
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| A statement describing how a researcher manipulates an independent variable is known as a(n) | show 🗑
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| Students are watched in a bar. How much they drink and how much they smile is recorded. The hypothesis being tested is that the amount of alcohol consumed will be related to the number of times that they smile in order to learn while people smile. | show 🗑
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| To ensure that the participants' and researchers' expectations do not influence the outcome of an experiment, the psychologist should | show 🗑
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