RESEARCH METHODS PRACTICE

Independent variable is to dependent variable as _________ is to ____________.

• hypothesis | conclusion

• effect | cause

• cause | effect

• conclusion | hypothesis

Which answer provides examples of participant variables?

• independent variables, dependent variables
• time of day, noise level, temperature, location
• prior experience, motivation, intelligence, educational background
• extraneous variables, confounding variables

Which answer provides examples of situational variables?

• independent variables, dependent variables
• time of day, noise level, temperature, location
• prior experience, motivation, intelligence, educational background
• extraneous variables, confounding variables

"Monday Morning Quarterback" rarely act surprised about the outcome of the weekend football games.  This tendency to believe they knew how the game would turn out is best explained by which psychological principle?

• Overconfidence
• Hindsight Bias
• Intuition
• Illusory Correlation

Which of the following demonstrates the need for psychological science?

• Psychology's methods are unlike those of any other science
• Psychological experiments are less valuable without psychological science
• Out intuitions about human thinking and behavior are not always accurate
• Intuitions does not provide correct answers unless it is applied through the scientific method

A testable prediction is called (a/an):

• operational definition
• theory
• replication
• hypothesis

All those in a group being studied is referred to as the...

• Random sample
• Representative sample
• Population
• Sampling bias

Which of the following methods best limits the influence of unknown variables in an experiment?

• Random assignment

• Debriefing

• Stratified Sampling

• Subject matching

• Correlational study

It is important for researchers to use precise operational definitions when...

• They want to ensure that conditions are assigned randomly

• They want to be able to replicate the experiment

• They want to organize the hypothesis appropriately

• They are conducting experimental research but not correlational research

• They are conducting an experiment with no independent and dependent variables

Research particpants are randomly assigned to one of three groups. One group listens to a list of words, another group reads a list of words, and the third group hears and reads the words. The researcher then tests the participants' memories to see how many words the members of each group can recall. The way the words are presented is which type of variable?

• Confounding

• Dependent

• Independent

• Extraneous

• Control