Quarter 1 Review

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A researcher looking for gender differences in 3-year-olds observes a preschool class and records how many minutes children of each gender play with dolls. She then compares the two sets of numbers. What type of descriptive research is she conducting?

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Naturalistic Observation

Front

Which of the following questions is best investigated by means of a survey?
Is IQ related to grades?
Does extra sleep improve memory?
What is the best study technique for AP tests?
Are students more likely to be politically liberal or conservative?

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Are students more likely to be politically liberal or conservative?

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Which of the following is most important when conducting survey research?
- Choosing a representative sample
- Choosing a large sample
- Choosing a biased sample
- Choosing a sample whose answers will likely support your hypothesis

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Choosing a representative sample

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What must a researcher do to fulfill the ethical principle of informed consent?

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Allow participants to choose whether to take part.

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Which ethical principle requires that at the end of the study participants be told about the true purpose of the research?

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Debriefing

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Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?

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Experiment

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What research method do clinical researchers use to gain insight into the causes of abnormal behavior by delving deeply into the histories of patients with a common diagnosis and interviewing various people in their lives?

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Case Study

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This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).

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Experiments

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What is a theory?

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a tested conclusion accepted as true

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What is replication?

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Doing an experiment again and getting the same results.