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Possible Exam Questions
100
The only research method that can show a cause-and-effect relationship between variables
What is an experiment?
100
Type of research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
What is a case study?
100
Publishing a list of participants names with the results of a research study violates this ethical principle
What is confidentiality?
100
Describe the correlation:
If more time is spent studying, exam scores tend to go up
What is a positive correlation?
100
A psychologist designed a study to test the effects of cell phone use on driving safety. Participants were randomly assigned either to drive an automobile simulator while talking to a friend on a cell phone or to drive a simulator without talking on a phone.
Which type of research does the scenario describe?
What is an Experiment?
200
Process that ensures participants have an equal chance of being in either the control group or experimental group
What is random assignment?
200
These are important for measuring variables when researchers want to be able to replicate an experiment
What are operational definitions?
200
The right of participants who do not wish to complete a study they began
What is right to withdraw?
200
An experimental procedure in which only participants do not know whether they are receiving a real treatment or a placebo
What is single-blind procedure?
200
An institutional review board (IRB) rejected a proposal for research where participants requesting to lesion Wernicke’s Area in otherwise healthy individuals to study the resulting speech comprehension issues. Which of the following is the most likely ethical consideration for rejecting the study?
What is protection from harm?
300
An uncontrolled variable that hides or exaggerates differences between levels of the IV
What is a confounding variable?
300
Mr. Heidegger designs an experiment to see if room temperature impacts his classes' exam performance. In his experiment, room temperature would be...
What is the independent variable (IV)?
300
If deception is a necessary aspect of a study, this must follow the study ASAP
What is debriefing?
300
Mr. Heidegger designs an experiment to see if exercise improves his students' concentration during long PowerPoints. In his experiment, concentration would be...
What is the dependent variable (DV)?
300
In a distribution of data comparing scores on the Big Five personality test, the mean, mode, and median of the distribution were the same. Which of the following best describes what the graph of this data would look like?
What is a normal distribution?
400
Mr. Heidegger only asks his AP students to participate in a survey and concludes LHS/HSA students are given far too much homework each night. What type of sampling did he use?
What is convenience sampling?
400
The potential issue when a participant responds to a survey asking them to rate their happiness on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the happiest, and all their responses are 5
What is social desirability bias?
400
Relying on orphan children for psychological research risks violating this ethical guideline
What is informed consent?
400
Sketch the scatterplot for
r= - 0.75
400
Dr. Zimbardo recruited college students to pretend to be prison guards or prisoners in a fake prison. The college students were not aware that the prison was fake. Which procedure can reduce problems associated with the use of deception by a researcher?
What is debriefing?
500
Procedure used to reduce potential confounding participant variables in an experiment
What is random assignment?
500
Describe the relationship:
A negative correlation between hunger and concentration
as hunger increases, concentration tends to decrease OR
as hunger decreases, concentration tends to increase
500
A researcher tells participants that a study examines memory, but it actually measures conformity. Which ethical practice is being used, and what must happen afterward? (2 answers)
What are deception and debriefing?
500
This type of experimental procedure can be used to reduce the likelihood of experimenter bias
What is double-blind procedure?
500
Dr. Fredericks is interested in studying how quickly people forget what they learn in class. He teaches a class on biological psychology on a Monday. On Tuesday, he gives the class a quiz asking the students about details from the previous class. Which of the following procedures should Dr. Fredericks have followed to avoid the confounding variable of experimenter bias?
What is double-blind?