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Math is mean
Ain't nobody got time for that
When bad meets evil
100
This phrase refers to the debate on the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development.
What is "nature vs nurture"?
100
Research method that establishes a cause and effect relationship
What is a controlled experiment?
100
Describe the outliers for a positively skewed frequency polygon.
What is 'outliers are far above the mean'?
100
This tool is used to clearly define the variables in a study.
What is operational definitions?
100
Which APA guideline was violated if the identities of the participants were revealed by the researcher?
What is anonymity?
200
This perspective would most likely explain anger as “an outlet for unconscious hostility”?
What is psychoanalytic or psychodynamic approach?
200
In this type of experiment neither the researchers nor the experimental subjects know whether the latter have been assigned to an experimental group or a control group.
What is a double blind experiment?
200
Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas's annual salary is $90,000. Her manager's salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each. The range of this distribution is
What is $75,000?
200
A teacher wants to determine the impact of teaching style on quiz scores. To do this, she divides a class into two groups and teaches one group using one style and the other group using a different style. She then measures the scores on the quizzes. Identify the independent variable.
What is teaching style?
200
If deception is used with informed consent and without causing trauma, the violation of this APA guideline would consider the deception unethical.
What is debriefing?
300
This perspective would most look at how our interpretation of a situation affects how we react to it.
What is cognitive approach?
300
In this type of experiment the researchers know whether particular subjects have been assigned to an experimental group or a control group, but the experimental subjects do not.
What is single-blind experiment?
300
Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas's annual salary is $90,000. Her manager's salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each. The mean of this distribution is
What is $30,000?
300
John wants to study the effects of alcohol on the behavior of college students. For his study, he spends 5 hours every night for 2 weeks at a bar near a college watching how the patrons act before and after drinking alcoholic beverages. The research method John is employing is...
What is field research or naturalistic observation?
300
The principal informs the student that they will be part of a study investigating the relationship between sleeping habits and athletic performance and requires all students on the basketball team to complete a survey. This ethical guideline has been violated.
What is coercion?
400
The belief that the brain and nervous system affect behavior is fundamental to this perspective of psychology
What is biological approach or neuroscience?
400
Double-blind experiments increase the validity of an experiment by removing what confounding variable?
What is experimenter bias? [placebo effect also acceptable]
400
In a normal distribution of scores, approximately what percentage of all scores will occur within one standard deviation from the mean?
What is 68%?
400
Dr. Didden was hired by the TLC Company to help them retain their employees without lowering the firm's profits. After TLC removed cubicles and permitted employees to decorate their workroom as recommended by Dr. Didden, the absentee rate declined and no employees left for jobs elsewhere. Dr. Didden is most likely to be this type of psychologist.
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
400
Why might studies investigating physical pain and learned helplessness no longer be allowed by the APA today?
What is suffering violation?
500
If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with this approach.
What is the behavioral approach?
500
In a study that tests the effects of dopamine on the amount of exercise in a rat, this is the dependent variable.
What is the amount of exercise?
500
The measure of variability most commonly used to determine the statistical significance of a set of data using one experimental group. (HINT: not variance)
What is standard deviation?
500
If Jose were to do a study that involved using two groups that already existed, and he simply measured an aspect of their behavior, he could determine how the groups are related on a particular measure of behavior. Such a study would typically involve statistics. If he didn’t want to infer causation but rather was just interested in the relationship between the variables, he would be using what statistic?
What is correlation?
500
This APA ethical guideline for human research is the most subjective, and open to interpretation by the IRB.
What is risk?