1. The following journal article would be an example of _______ research; "The benefits of florescent lighting on production in a factory setting."

Applied
Interview
Basic
Stupid (hint: don't select this one)

2. The ________ is only useful if the concepts, ideas, questions, etc. to be investigated are both testable and falsifiable.

Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Experimental Method
Scientific Method

3. Many experiments conducted at universities have Introductory Psychology students act as participants, and then generalize the findings of the study to the general public. In this case, ALL college students in the US can be considered the "population", but those students who participated in the experiment themselves are called the:

control group
sample
experimental group
guinea pigs

4. If you take the S.A.T. exam four times and you receive the same score all four times, we may conclude that the test is ______ but not necessarily _____.

valid; reliable
reliable; accurate
reliable; valid
valid; important

5. In order for an experiment to be considered a TRUE EXPERIMENT there must be both random assignment of subjects/participants to groups, and _______.

equal numbers of males and females
preliminary testing to see if participants are eligible
approval of an internal review board
manipulation of an Independent Variable

6. Marsha, Jan, and Cindy are participants in a psychological study of the effectiveness of three different psychedelic drugs. Each participant is assigned to one and only one condition, receiving only one type of drug, in order to examine the effects of each drug from one group to the next. This is a _____ design.

between-subjects
within-subjects (repeated measures)
I have no clue
experimental

7. A correlation coefficient of +0.92 means that as one variable increases, the other variable:

increases
decreases
is not affected
is impossible to predict

8. If a participant in an experiment believed that she was expected to act in a certain way, and therefore did not act completely honestly or naturally, her behavior would fit the definition of:

experimenter bias
control
demand characteristics
subjective behavior

9. After a Psychologist has stated the specific problem to be studied in an experiment, he/she must then develop a(n):

theory
conclusion
hypothesis
summary of the data

10. Which of the following would allow me to have the MOST control over environmental variables when conducting a research study?

true experimental design
quasi-experimental design
survey
case study

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