25-26 Psychology Unit 2 : Research

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This organization, one of the largest professional groups of psychologists in the world, was founded in 1892.

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The American Psychological Association

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Who is an anthropologist known for studying chimpanzee behavior in the wild using naturalistic observation?

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Jane Goodall

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________ is/are often conducted with large numbers of participants and can even be conducted by phone, email, or mail.

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surveys

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What kind of research is Saanvi conducting if she tracks six groups of participants, each group a different age, over several years, assessing them on her variable of interest once every six months?

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longitudinal

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What is one flaw of the design assessing viewpoints on decriminalization of marijuana for medical purposes across different age groups (20, 30, 40, 50)?

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Social or cultural factors may influence the results, not age.

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Correlation coefficient for moderate relationship: fewer anxiety symptoms with higher life satisfaction? Options: -0.53, -0.21, +0.13, +0.78

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-0.53

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Stan and Jenny are in a psychology course that requires them to repeat an experiment that researchers have conducted in the past, in order to determine whether they produce the same results. This is called ________.

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replication

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Validity

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Accuracy

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Which of the following is not part of obtaining informed consent?

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explaining the hypothesis to the participants

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Studies that cannot ethically be conducted as experiments with typical human participants.

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can sometimes be tested with animal studies