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Psychology as a Science
Ethics
Reliability and Validity
Measuring Constructs
Research Designs
100
Goal of psychological science where you look at the causes of behavior and why people do what they do.
What is understanding?
100
A government initiated study that examined a sexually transmitted disease over the course of fifty year period.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis study?
100
What type of error is involved: A study is run at 1 pm, each participant just finished eating lunch and ate at a different restaurant.
What is random error?
100
Which type of data is described: amount of gas in a car indicated on a fuel meter.
What is ratio data?
100
What type of research design would be used in the following study: A child suffers from severe multiple personality disorder and a researcher observes her behavior and works with her for many years.
What is a case study design?
200
Goal of psychological science where you observe behavior and just record what you see.
What is description?
200
The need for people to consent to a study without over coercion, subtle coercion or excessive inducements.
What is voluntary participation?
200
What form of reliability or validity is involved: A researcher is studying the effects of intelligence on decision making. To avoid practice effects the researcher makes 3 different but similar intelligence tests.
What is alternate forms reliability?
200
Which type of data is described: Participants are asked to recall a time when they felt rejected and then write about the experience in a short paragraph.
What is qualitative data?
200
What type of research design would be used in the following study: Researchers wish to discover the effects of abuse on someone's self-esteem.
What is a quasi-experiment?
300
Goal of psychological science where you alter the conditions of a situation to influence people to react a certain way.
What is control?
300
What is the following scenario an example of: A researcher tells participants that they are examining their puzzle-solving skills in a group when they are actually measuring their racism based on interaction with ethnically diverse confederates.
What is deception?
300
What type of reliability or validity is involved: A researcher wants to make sure the survey they just wrote consistently measures their construct. To do this the give one part of the study to half the participants and the other part to the other half in a pilot study.
What is split-half reliability?
300
What type of data is described: time on a 24 hour clock.
What is interval data?
300
What type of research design would be used in the following study: Researchers wish to discover if violent video games increase violent behavior.
What is a correlational design?
400
Goal of psychological science where you forecast human behavior.
What is prediction?
400
Composed of faculty and community members that must approve a study before it is ran.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
400
What type of reliability or validity is involved: A survey whose goal is to measure self-esteem asks this question- "Are you a dog or cat person?"
What is face validity?
400
What type of data is described: At a track meet the race has just finished and the first 3 runners to finish are given medals for placing in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.
What is ordinal data?
400
What type of research design is described: Researchers wish to discover if students are more motivated if they feel happy or sad. To do this researchers show one group a happy video and the other a sad video and then measure motivation by timing their performance on a task.
What is a true experiment?
500
Seeking knowledge for knowledge sake versus doing research to change lives.
What is the difference between basic and applied research?
500
What does the following scenario describe: At the beginning of the study the participant is handed a form that lays out all the details of the study. If the participant signs the form they agree to participate in the study.
What is informed consent?
500
What type of reliability or validity is involved: A researcher wishes to measure attraction in college students. To determine if they're attracted to a person in a photo the researcher measures heart rate. However, the photo chosen was of an actor/actress from a scary movie.
What is discriminant validity?
500
Identify the IV and DV in the study described: One group of students (X) were just read a short story (condition A), the other group (Y) were read a short story and were taught a lesson (condition B). The next day their memory of the stories were tested. Two weeks later they switched groups (X was put into condition B and Y into condition A) and the next day their memory was tested again.
What is lesson or no lesson (IV) and memory (DV)?
500
Is the following study between or within subjects: An experiment measured recognition of different emotions on the faces of people in photographs. Each participant viewed all of the possible emotions (Yik, Widen, & Russell, 2013).
What is within-subjects design?