Research Methods Quiz

After the events of 9/11, your friend suggested that the CIA and FBI should have foreseen the likelihood of this form of terrorism. According to her, all the clues were there. This perception most clearly illustrates:

• the false consensus effect

• the hindsight bias

• random sampling

• the placebo effect

This technique gathers self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people by questioning them randomly and representatively.

• Experiment

• Case Study

• Survey

• Exploratory study

This is a self-correcting process for asking questions and observing nature's answer.

• The observational method

• the theory method

• the scientific method

• the hypothetical method

If a researcher is studying different approaches to dieting to determine which is the most effective for weight loss, the experimenter's manipulation of dieting is the:

• Control condition

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

• Placebo

If you choose a sample of the population that gives each person an equal chance of participating, this would be:

• A biased sample

• A random sample

• An optimal sample

• An atypical sample

This is an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth.

• Survey

• Case Study

• Exploratory study

• Experiment

In an experiment, researchers manipulate one or more _______________ and then determine whether this manipulation had an effect on the _______________.

• independent variables; dependent variable

• dependent variables; independent variable

• correlations; association

• personality characteristics; outcome

A researcher is interested in determining if infant crying and caretaker responses are different in developed and developing nations. She trains her research assistants to watch and record babies' behaviors in 3-minute increments, including variations in crying (e.g., whimpering, pain cries, etc.), as well as caregiver responses (e.g., holding, speaking, etc.). She then chooses 50 participants in four different countries to be included in her study. What type of research design is she using?

• Naturalistic observation

• Case study

• Survey research

• Correlation

We tend to overestimate the extent to which other people share our attitudes and opinions. This is because we spend most of our time with people who represent:

• A biased sample.

• A random sample.

• A sampling technique

• Atypical individual cases.

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded, is known as what?

• Random Experiment
• Single-blind Experiment
• Stratified Experiment
• Double-blind Experiment