Research Methods Review (9/25)

Students will be able to read a statement printed in the Comic Sans font faster than the same statement written in the Lucida Calligraphy font.

• hypothesis

• theory

• replication

• operational definition

• correlation

Students will be able to read a statement printed in the Comic Sans font faster than the same statement written in the Lucida Calligraphy font.

Q. The dependent variable in an experiment based on the statement would be

• the statement written in the Comic Sans font

• the statement written in the Lucida Calligraphy font

• the length of time it takes students to read the statements

• the students who read the statements written in the Comic Sans font

• the number of students who participate in the experiment

Q. Of the following, which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between political party membership and attitude toward the death penalty?

• controlled experiment

• naturalistic observation

• survey

• case study

John wants to study the effects of alcohol on the behavior of college students. For his study, he spends 5 hours every night for 2 weeks at a bar near a college watching how the patrons act before and after drinking alcoholic beverages. The research method John is employing is a

• experiment

• survey

• naturalistic observation

• case study

Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas’s annual salary is $90,000. Her manager’s salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each. The range of this distribution is

• $75,000

• $50,000

• $25,000

• $20,000

• $15,000

Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas’s annual salary is $90,000. Her manager’s salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each. For this distribution, the mean is

• lower than both the median and the mode

• lower than the median, but higher than the mode

• lower than the mode, but higher than the median

• higher than both the median and the mode

• the same as the median

Paulo thinks that if he and his friends get more sleep, they will do better on the tests they take. If he were able to set up an experiment to test his hypothesis, the independent variable would be

• getting more sleep

• the difference between the current number of hours they sleep and the longer amount of sleep

• the scores they get on tests

• the difference between the scores they currently get and those after the longer amount of sleep

• the people who get more sleep

Daniella thought the psychology test her teacher made up was unfair because the exam tested topics the class had not studied. According to her argument, the test was not

• statistically composed

• reliable

• valid

• correlated

Which psychological approach is most concerned with the importance of the unconscious mind?

• behavioral approach

• cognitive approach

• humanistic approach

• psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach

• biopsychosocial approach

The focus of functionalists on the application of psychological findings to practical situations and adapting to the environment paved the way for

• structuralists

• behaviroists

• developmental psychologists

• cognitive psychologists

• humanistic psychologists