AP Psych Unit 2 Research Methods

If a researcher wants to be able to predict if two variables are related to each other they would use

• experimental research
• correlational research
• case study
• illusory research

A way to study an individual or a group is an example of ___?

• Naturalistic observation
• Case study
• Survey
• Random Sampling

What is a double blind procedure?

• Participants don't know which group they're in
• Researchers don't know which group the participants are in
• Neither participants nor researcher knows who is in which group
• Both researcher and participants know who is in each group

What is curious skepticism?

• Closed to new ideas
• Goes along with anything
• Doesn't ask questions but also doesn't accept new ideas
• Open to new ideas but still questions them

What is a theory?

• An explaination using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
• A testable prediction
• A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study
• Allows other scientists/researchers to replicate the research

Which person do we aften refer to as the example of using case studies?

• John Locke
• Phineas Gage
• Francis Bacon
• Sigmund Freud

The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you knew it all along is the definition of...

• Overconfidence
• Hindsight Bias
• Perceiving order in random events
• Critical thinking

If there was a boy who claimed he could see into the future, what kind of research method would you use to study him?

• Case study
• Survey
• Naturalistic observation
• Operational study

All those in a group being studied is referred to as the...

• Random sample
• Representative sample
• Population
• Sampling bias

If two sets relate inversely, then it has a ___ correlation

• Positive
• Negative
• Causation
• There is no correlation