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A tenantive prediction about the relationship between two variables is: |
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| Reseachers must describe the actions that will be taken to measure or control each variable in their studies. In other words, they must: |
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| Provide operation definitions of their variables |
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| A researcher found that clients who were randomly assigned to same-sex groups praticipated more in group therapy sessions than clients who were randomly assigned to coed groups. In this experiment, the independant variable was: |
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| whether or not the group was co-ed |
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| A reseacher wants to see whether a protein enriched diet will enhance the maze-running performance of rats. One group of rats are fed the high-protein diet for the duration of the study; the other group continues to recieve ordinary rat chow. In this experiment the diet fed to the two groups of rats is the ____________ variable |
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| In a study of the effect of a new teaching technique on students' achievement test scores, an important extraneious variable would be the students': |
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| Whenever you have a cold, you rest in bed, take aspirin, and drink plenty of fluids. You can't determine which remedy is most effective because of which of the following problems? |
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| Confounding of the variables |
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| A psychologist monitors a group of nursery-school children, recording each instance of helping behavior as it occurs. The psychologist is using: |
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| Among the dadvantages of descriptive/correlation research is (are): |
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| It allows investigators to isolate cause and effect |
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| which of the following correlation coefficients would indicate the strongest relationship between two variables? |
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| when psychologist say that their results are statistically signigicant, they mean that the results: |
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| Are unlikely to be due to the fluctuations of chance. |
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| Sampling bias exists when: |
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| the sample is not representative of the population |
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| The problem of experimenter bias can be avoided by: |
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| Using a research stradegy in which neither subjects nor experimnenter know which participants are in the experimental and control groups |
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| Critics of deception in research have assumed that deceptive studies are harmful to participants. The emperical data on this issue suggest that: |
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| Most participants in the deceptive studies report that they enjoyed the experience and didn't mind being misled. |
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| A computerized database containing abstracts of articles, chapters, and books reporting psychological research |
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| a: is often concrete, vivid and memorable. b). tends to influence people. c). is fundamentally flawed and unreliable (ALL Of The ABOVE) |
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