Regarding happiness and marital status, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Married people report greater happiness than separated or divorced people.
b. Single people report greater happiness than married people.
c. Happy people are more likely to get married and stay married.
d. Most people get a small boost in happiness immediately after getting married, but eventually return to about the same level of happiness they had before they were married.
ANSWER: b
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a. behavioral c. cognitive b. psychodynamic d. biological
If a researcher assigns subjects to groups based on, for example, their gender, the researcher would be employing:
a. a manipulated independent variable. b. random assignment. c. the quasi-experimental method. d. a manipulated dependent variable.
What is the main distinction of using a descriptive research design as compared to a correlational or experimental design?
a. Descriptive studies allow researchers to use different types of statistics, which opens the field of psychology up to research questions that cannot be explored with other designs. b. Descriptive studies enable researchers to observe and describe behaviors without investigating the relationship between specific variables. c. Descriptive studies allow researchers to gather data from far fewer participants so that cause and effect relationship can be determined in less time. d. Descriptive studies, unlike correlational or experimental designs, do not require actual human participants for data gathering.
In a controlled experiment, the group subjected to a change in the independent variable is called the ______ group
a. independent b. experimental c. dependent d. control