PSYC 255 Quiz 5 Answers (Liberty)
- A researcher wants to find out whether gross motor coordination is better in the morning or in the afternoon. To measure coordination, participants balance a book on their heads first in the morning and then in the afternoon. What is confounded with the independent variable?
- Strong manipulations are used to __ the effect of the __ variable
- A researcher who measures the speed of helping in an emergency is using a __ measure.
- Experimenter bias effects can occur when the experimenter:
- The strongest possible manipulation should not be used if it results in:
- When a confounding variable is present in an experiment, one cannot tell whether the results were due to the:
- A design that has two conditions with different participants in each condition is a (n) __ design.
- When individuals participate in only one condition, it is a __ design. When individuals participate in all conditions it is a __ design.
- One problem with the pretest posttest design is that:
- A researcher designed an experiment to test the effects of a top secret vitamin supplement on the strength of weight lifters. Thimble lifting would not be a useful measure of strength because thimble lifting:
- The galvanic skin response (GSR) is used as a measure of:
- Which one of the following is a behavioral measure? An investigator measures:
- Which one of the following statements is incorrect? In an experimental design, mortality refers to the:
- When constructing a Latin square design, each condition:
- A design that has two conditions with the same participants in each condition is a (n) __ design.
- A (n) __ provides evidence to indicate what brain processes are involved while an individual works on a cognitive task.
- In general staged manipulations are __ than straightforward manipulations.
- Ralph has a confederate cut in front of a person who is second or ninth in line at a grocery store checkout counter. He then records the number of verbal responses towards the confederate as a measure of aggression. The manipulation employed in this study is an example of a __ manipulation.
- In drug research a (n) __ has occurred when it is unclear whether improvement is due to properties of the drug or the expectation about the effect of the drug.
- Which of the following is a technique to improve internal validity __?
- McKenna designs a study in which she has two control and two experimental groups. In her design, one control group receives a pretest while the other does not, and one experimental group receives a pretest while the other does not. McKenna’s design is an example of a __ design.
- A graduate student assigns students in a class to taste either Coke or Pepsi. Students rate their liking for the soda on a scale from 1 to 10. This is an example of a __ design.
- It is policy in a school district to inform teachers in the fall whether any of their new students had previously been identified as having behavior or learning problems. This policy probably:
- A matched pairs design involves
- Dr. Colombo measures the tension in a participants neck muscles as she completes a strenuous physical task. Dr. Colombo has most likely used a(n):
- In general__ manipulations are less costly than__manipulations.
- While in a shopping mall, a marketing researcher stops and asks you which you prefer; soda in a bottle or soda in a can. Your response would be an example of a __ measure.
- Experimenter expectancy or bias effects can be reduced by:
- Dr. Mills measures participant’s brain wave activity in order to study the brains response to sounds of varying frequencies. Dr. Mills is likely to be using which type of physiological measure?
- Presenting participants with different versions of a videotaped confession in order to study person perception is an example of (a) n ___ manipulation
- At the end of a three year study, Susan finds that 12 percent of her participants did not take part in the final survey because they moved away. In research terms, Susan is experiencing a __ problem.
- Which of the following statements is true regarding the use of staged manipulations? Staged manipulations:
- Investigators will sometimes use deception in the procedures to address the problem of:
- Professor Smith surveys her students in order to examine their preference for an individual or a group project. The responses Professor Smith collects would be an example of what type pf measures?
- When planning an experimental manipulation, one should consider:
- Research proposals are often written because they
- A researcher wants to find out whether campers prefer cotton or nylon sleeping bags. A troop of boy campers tried cotton and a troop of girl campers tried nylon sleeping bags. The sleeping bags were rated for softness and warmth. The confounding variable is:
- Statistical analysis of the data is:
- During the debriefing period of an experiment participants:
- A criminal investigator measures a suspect’s change in perspiration in response to questions regarding a burglary. The investigator is using which type of physiological measure?
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