Unit 0

What must a researcher do to fulfill the ethical principle of informed consent?

• Keep information about participants confidential.

• Allow participants to choose whether to take part.

• Protect participants from potential harm.

• Provide participants with a pre-experimental explanation of the study.

Why is an operational definition necessary when reporting research findings?

• It provides more context and includes many examples of the concept described.

• Allows others to replicate the procedure.

• It uses more scientific language than a dictionary definition.

• It's easier to translate into multiple languages.

Which descriptive method can investigate whether students at SHS are either liberal or conservative?

• Double blind procedure

• Survey

• Debriefing

• Experiment

Which of the following professionals is required to have a medical degree?

• Psychiatrist

• Psychologist

• Counselor

• Psychotherapist

Which would most likely investigate biological, psychological, cognitive, and social changes over time?

• Evolutionary

• Social

• Cognitive

• Developmental

The study of the importance of satisfying love and acceptance needs best describes which school of psychology?

• Behavioral

• Structuralist

• Humanistic

• Functionalist

Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?

• Social-cultural

• Behavioral

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

The debate about the contribution of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?

• Evolutionary analysis

• Nature-nurture

• Natural selection

• Behaviorism

Which is most important when conducting survey research?

• Choosing a large sample

• Choosing a biased sample

• Choosing a sample that includes every member of the population

• Choosing a representative sample

Which is used only in correlational studies?

• Double blind

• Random assignment

• Scatterplot

• Random sample