SR#1-3 Review

Dr. Larson was interested in whether classical music helps students perform better on a test. Dr. Larson randomly assigned half of the study's participants to a group that listened to classical music while taking a test. The other half of the participants did not listen to music while taking a test. Which research method is most appropriate?

• sample survey

• experiment

• observational study

• census

Jane Goodall lived among wild chimpanzees intermittently for decades, studying their social and family systems while keeping her interaction with the chimpanzees to a minimum. Which research method is most appropriate?

• biased study

• census

• experiment

• observational study

Identify the sampling design: The LFCC registrar wants to investigate attitudes of their graduates.  The registrar randomly selects 100 names from each of the four past graduating classes.

• cluster
• volunteer
• stratified
• simple random

Interview every 10th student who enters the school in the morning.

• simple random

• voluntary response

• systematic

• convenience

Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. She survey's the first 30 students who come into her class.

• Convenience Sampling

• Systematic Random Sampling

• Simple Random Sampling

• Volunteer response

an experiment in which the participants are unaware of who recieved the treatment

• Placebo Effect

• Double Blind

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Single Blind

a change in participants illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect rather than from the actual treatment

• Placebo Effect

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Longitudinal Study

• Control Group

Can pleasant aromas help a student learn better? Two researchers believed that the presence of a floral scent could improve a person's learning ability in certain situations. They had 22 people work through a pencil-and-paper maze 6 times. Three of the times they wore a floral-scented mask and three times they wore an unscented mask. The three trials for each mask followed one another. Testers measures the length of time it took subjects to complete each of the six trials. They reported that, on average, subjects wearing the floral-scented mask completed the maze more quickly that those wearing the unscented mask, although, the difference was not statistically significant. This study is:

• a convenience sample
• an oberservational study
• an experiment, but not double-blind
• a double-blind experiment

_________ is a sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected.

• Sample
• Population
• Random Sample
• Quartile

A survey of 976 American households found that 32% of the households own two cars.  Identify the the sample. {hint: a survey of what __)

• All American households

• 976 American households

• 32% of Americans own two cars

• two cars

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CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3