Units 1 and 2 Review: History and Research Methods

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 nor the full nature of the study

• Both researcher and participants know who is in each group

What is naturalistic observation?

• Recording behavior in natural environments
• A way to study an individual or a group
• Human brain tries to find order or patterns in everything
• Tend to think we know more than we do, we look for information to confirm our judgement

Which is an example of perceiving order in random events?

• Seeing a face on the moon
• Hearing satanic messages in music
• Perceiving images on grilled cheese
• All of the above

An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events are __________.

• Hindsight Bias

• Critical Thinking

• Hypothesis

• Theory

What is a testable prediction that is often implied by a theory?

• Replication
• Hypothesis
• Naturalistic Observation
• Survey

What is the median of the data?

• The most frequently occuring score
• The middle score of a distribution
• The arithmetic average
• The difference between the highest and lowest score

The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distriution is the ______.

• Mode
• Mean
• Median
• Range

Which form of correlation does the given data set have? Increase in time spent playing sports, decrease in grade point average.

• Posotive Correlation
• No Correlation
• Discriminating Correlation
• Negative Correlation

What happens with positive correlation?

• 2 variable rise together
• 2 variables fall together
• 1 variable rises, 1 stays the same
• 1 variable rises, 1 falls

What is the tendency to believe that after learning the outcome that one would have foreseen it?

• Intuition
• Overconfidence
• Hindsight Bias
• Humility