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Psychology - Experimental Psychology

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What is considered heavy alcohol use versus binge use?
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A test statistic is a mathematical formula used to determine how far a sample outcome deviates or varies from the outcome that is assumed to be true in the null hypothesis.
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______ involves decomposing each score into two parts.
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The mental ability evaluations conducted at Ellis Island could best be characterized as
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Time sampling and situation sampling are used to increase which of the following characteristics of observational findings?
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Which of the following characteristics is present in a typical case study?
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A standard error is the value of a statistic at or beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected
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______ will equal 1.0 if there is no effect of the treatment/independent variable, because in this case, you will have a ratio of error divided by error.
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If you are interested in how well students perform on a standardized math achievement test after they have completed a six-week math unit in either a computer-assisted class, a videotaped course, or a regular classroom, and you also want to include a factor for sex (boys vs. girls), what is the dependent variable?
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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This type of article begins with an Abstract, followed by an Introduction, Method section, Results section, and a Discussion section.
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Peterson and Peterson estimated that the duration of short-term memory (STM) was approximately
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"I wonder why study questions help students learn," Mr. Manear said. "Perhaps it is because they direct students' attention to relevant information, so that it is appropriately processed and stored in their memories." Mr. Manear had developed a
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A study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health revealed that when participants received a message about safe sex practices in a discussion format, they changed their sexual practices. In this study, the independent variable was
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Cross-cultural findings on the applicability of terror management theory suggests that self-enhancement is a universal psychological process, and that individuals will universally work to bolster their self-esteem
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Suppose that some students are participating in a dichotic listening task. Which of the following kinds of students would be most likely to notice their names in the irrelevant message?
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A university alumni office conducted a survey of their alumni to assess changes in attitudes toward the university over time. In the first year of the survey, the alumni office surveyed graduates from the year 2009. In the second and third years of the survey, graduates from the years 2011 and 2013 were surveyed, respectively. When examining the results of the survey to determine whether attitudes of the alumni changed over time, the alumni office should consider
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______ quantities are required to construct a confidence interval around a sample mean when σ is known.
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In the following figure, Phase A is called the ______.<img width="406" height="215" align="bottom" src="https://sciemce.com/files/4/ppg__examview__Chapter_09_Test_Bank__00001_res__mc086-1.jpg" border="0">
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In practice, most researchers use ______, which means that each individual is not replaced in the population before the next selection is made.
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Before using test-retest reliability, you must consider:
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Which of the following statements is true about t distributions?
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In a factorial design, a cell is another term for a(n) _____
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A Kuder-Richardson (KR) or split-half estimate of reliability for a speed test would provide an estimate that is
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Your textbook describes several methodological problems that arise when conducting research with elderly individuals. These problems included the fact that
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Bransford and Franks ("The ants ate the sweet jelly") found that research participants:
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Most of the coherence in text is created by
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Which of the following r-values indicates the strongest relationship between two variables?
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Men and women sometimes respond to surveys in such a way as to give the impression that they conform to society's stereotypes, even when their true behaviors are different from what they report. Such behavior is called
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. A statistic is ______ when its expected value equals the parameter it estimates.
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______ uses the scientific method to answer questions that address theoretical issues about fundamental processes and underlying mechanisms related to the behaviors and events being studied.
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It is rare that researchers know the exact probability of selecting each individual in a target population to a sample.
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Spelke, Hirst, and Neisser attempted to teach participants to simultaneously take dictation and read with comprehension. Their results suggests that ______.
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Explain the concept of weight-based memories
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Chapter 4 Refer to the research study described on pages 97 - 99 of your textbook to answer the following question. Which of the metaphors for the study of attention do you think this study most adheres to?
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Takumi completes a self-report inventory of personality. Generalizing from what you read in Chapter 11, the best person to ask to complete that same inventory to learn about Takumi would be
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If a researcher used an experiment to assess whether or not a certain drug would increase reading comprehension scores, then the dependent variable would be the
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An inherent problem with phallometric methods is that the defendant's self-interest co-exists with a well-documented ability of the assessee to
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In SPSS, the DV in an independent-samples t-test is called the _______.
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Which of these assumptions do not apply to scores within subjects or pairs of subjects.
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When homogeneity of variance is assumed, then the Levene test will NOT be significant,
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James has just finished participating in an experiment on coping behavior under stressful circumstances
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An experiment in which one independent variable is manipulated and two equivalent
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The goal of a(n) ______ is to examine how a situation of interest changes a behavior.
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A hill-climbing strategy for problem solving is
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A percentile is _____
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An outlier can change the strength but not the direction of a correlation between two factors.
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Measuring how changes in the apparatus affect the properties of the stimulus is known as:
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Situation models capture the propositions conveyed by a text
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What year is usually cited as the "birthday" of cognitive science (pick the closest year)?
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Automatic processes require __________
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How does a researcher's duration of care for animal subjects differ from that with human participants?
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Piaget is mainly identified with which theory of intelligence?
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______ refers to sample standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size.
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Without random assignment of individuals to conditions we risk ______.
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Gelman found in a series of studies that when preschoolers are given information about an item, they
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A skewed distribution typically has _____ tail(s) and a normal distribution has ____ tail(s)
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Tony, Silvio, Paulie, and Christopher were all in the convenience store when it was robbed. Who is likely to be the most reliable eyewitness?
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