Psychology Quiz Two

________ research studies the same groups of participants over time.

Which of the following is a scientific way of determining facts?

________ means that there is a relationship between two or more variables.

A ________ is a graphical view of the strength and direction of a correlation.

Ethics need to be considered when ________ scientific research.

________ is/are often conducted with large numbers of participants and can even be conducted by phone, email, or mail.

A(n) ________ case study is conducted by gathering detailed information about participants who are psychological patients.

Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen. This describes ________.

Patwardhan et al. report data from a study where they hired experimental confederates to attend speed dating events, posing as daters, and carefully take notes on the behaviors of the daters. What type of research design did they use?

A(n) ________ is a well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena

________ is a reduction in the number of research participants as some drop out of the study over time.

A major advantage of case studies is ________.

The possible range for a correlation coefficient is ________.

What is a limitation that affects the generalizability of research results?

________ are subjects of psychological research.

Research on ________ subjects must always involve ________.

The scientific process is ________, involving both inductive and deductive reasoning.

________ is the tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs.

Spurling et al. investigated the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. In this example, learning strategy is the ________ variable and word retention is the ________ variable.

Which of the following is not a potential problem associated with relying on college students as participants in psychological research?