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1. What identifies psychology as a scientific discipline?
its professional status
methods used in studying its subject matter
its subject matter
amount of education needed to be a psychiatrist
2. Hypothesis refers to __________:
the outcome of an experiment
a conclusion drawn from an experiment
a form of bias in which the subject tries to outguess the experimenter
a tentative statement about the relationship
3. Statistics are used by researchers to:
analyze the empirical data collected in a study
make their findings sound better
operationally define their variables
ensure the study comes out the way it was intended
4. What is the final step of a scientific investigation?
analyze data
collect data
report the findings
determine whether the hypothesis was supported
5. What is the variable
called, in an experiment, that is manipulated by the researcher?
stimulus
control
dependent
independent
6. What is the purpose of
a control group?
make the experiment easier to analyze
show the value of the dependent variable when the independent variable
is not being manipulated
to be able to better evaluate the effect of the independent variable
to control all variables
7. When does random assignment
occur?
when subjects have an equal chance to be assigned to any condition
and/or group in a study
when a subject can choose its group and study
none of the above
all of the above
8. Beth goes to a fast food
restaurant and records how many people order hamburgers versus cheeseburgers
and whether or not they order a coke versus a diet coke. Beth is involved
in a __________:
case study
naturalistic observation
survey
experiment
9. What technique would be useful in determining why a specific toddler is afraid
to go to bed?
descriptive study
case study
a placebo
experiment
10. What is one way that distortions
can be produced in self report data?
lying
social desirability bias
faulty memory
all of the above
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