Psy2012 Module 2

Front 1

As the price of gas increases, we tend to drive less. This is an example of a ____ correlation.

Back 1

negative

Front 2

Marcus wants to accurately assess students’ attitudes toward the cafeteria food on his college campus for his psychology research project. What research method should he use to collect this information?

Back 2

survey method

Front 3

The double-blind procedure can help eliminate bias in research participants.

Back 3

TRUE

Front 4

Late one night you are watching TV as an ad promoting magnetic pads to relieve pain comes on. You count more than 15 past customers appearing in the commercial claiming the product’s effectiveness in relieving pain from injuries and arthritis. One customer is a former professional football star. You realize that the commercial is cleverly using:

Back 4

testimonials

Front 5

During a recent trip to the shopping mall, someone working for the mall asked you to fill out a survey on shopping habits. As a student of psychology, what concerns might you have about this survey?

Back 5

"wording of the questions

Front 6

A newspaper article reports that crime increases each month when the moon is full. This relationship is a(n):

Back 6

correlation

Front 7

With regard to a subject‘s answers or behavior in an experiment, psychologists take seriously the subject’s right to:

Back 7

privacy and confidentiality

Front 8

Experimental group is to treatment as control group is to:

Back 8

placebo

Front 9

What is the most likely thing that a subject in a double-blind procedure would say?

Back 9

“I have no idea if I am in the experimental or control group and the researcher doesn’t know either!”

Front 10

Your grandmother’s cure for your upset stomach is to rub vinegar on your ear lobes. It works much of the time, but has no real medical effect. Psychologists would probably say that this is an example of a:

Back 10

placebo effect

Front 11

To improve the outcome of treating severe ADHD:

Back 11

both Ritalin and behavioral treatment should be used

Front 12

If Wanda makes an educated, precisely worded guess about the behavior of her friends in a specific situation, she is making a:

Back 12

hypothesis

Front 13

Correlations are not appropriate to ____ but are useful to ____.

Back 13

make cause-and-effect statements; make predictions about behavior

Front 14

Researchers decide for themselves what ethical guidelines to follow.

Back 14

FALSE

Front 15

If animals had not been used in research, what would we probably lack today?

Back 15

better understanding of many psychological and physical disorders

Front 16

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the lowest degree of association between two variables?

Back 16

0.15

Front 17

You are conducting a survey on racism. You have a group of well-trained assistants, about half white, half African American. Should you keep track of which subjects are questioned by white assistants and which by African-Americans assistants?

Back 17

Yes—the ethnicity of the assistant may affect subjects’ answers

Front 18

Your next door neighbor has a son named James. James, who is seven, has problems with attention and fidgets excessively. Based upon your interactions with James, you notice that he talks much of the time and has difficulty following instructions. What is James’s most likely diagnosis?

Back 18

attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Front 19

An advantage of randomly assigning subjects to groups is:

Back 19

that it reduces the chance that other variables will bias the results

Front 20

According to the textbook, which of the following groups has the highest incidence of ADHD?

Back 20

African-American Boys