Psych Methods (quick)

What is the first step in scientific research?

• researching your subject

• forming a hypothesis

• forming a research question

• creating a control group

Which of the following is NOT a very good research question?

• How does childhood trauma affect academic performance?

• What effect does music have on student test scores?

• How does student perception of difficulty affect performance in higher level classes?

• Where do students go after school?

Which of the following explains replication in scientific research?

• cell replication is key to biological survival

• during a single study, each researcher must conduct the experiment in exactly the same way for accurate results

• research subjects must be very similar to one another, "replicating" each other for accurate results

• researchers from different organizations and in different locations must be able to perform the study and get similar results

Volunteer bias affects studies in which of the following ways?

• researchers often show their bias when selecting volunteers, leading to less diversity

• people who are likely to volunteer for a study may have more free time or a different worldview from an average person

• it's very difficult to get people to volunteer for a study, leading to researcher bias

• people who volunteer for a study are often very biased in their views and opinations

Which of the following involves an in-depth analysis of an individual or a small group?

• survey

• case study

• naturalistic observation

• experiment

Which of the following research methods involve independent variables, dependent variables, and control groups?

• experiment

• naturalistic-observation

• laboratory-observation

• all research methods involve these

We're testing how plant height is affected by different levels of sunlight. The independent variable is _________ , the dependent variable is ___________.

• time it takes for plant to grow, amount of sunlight

• height of the plant, amount of sunlight

• time it takes for plant to grow, height of plant

• amount of sunlight, height of the plant

What is something posing as treatment, that is actually a fake?

• medical fraud

• falsification

• placebo

• ramification

In a double blind study, who knows which group is receiving the real treatment and which group isn't?

• the research coordinator only

• the research coordinator and the researchers who interact with subjects

• the research coordinator, researchers who interact with subjects, and the subjects themselves

• nobody involved knows who is receiving the real treatment

When is it acceptable to use deception in an experiment?

• it's always acceptable

• it's never acceptable

• when you can demonstrate that the benefit outweighs the harm

• when you can demonstrate that the harm outweighs the benefit