Deck 2: E: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research

Question 1

__________are a major problem in psychology research,and can cause participants to change their behavior based on how they think they are supposed to behave.

Answer 1

Demand characteristics

Question 2

__________designs are the only research method that can provide strong evidence for cause-and-effect relationships.

Answer 2

Experimental

Question 3

The_______ is a commonly occurring distribution that is characterized by its symmetrical shape with values clustered around a mean value.

Answer 3

normal distribution

Question 4

If the difference between groups in an experiment is unlikely to have occurred by random chance alone,the difference is said to be_________ .

Question 5

Tabitha is convinced that vaccines cause autism because her friend's child was diagnosed with autism only a week after being vaccinated.Because Tabitha's "evidence" is essentially a story about one person,it should be considered__________ and cannot be considered reliable.

Question 6

Case studies,naturalistic observation,and surveys and questionnaires are all types of_________ research,because they can only be used to collect observations.

Question 7

To study the effect of subliminal advertising on consumer behavior,participants were randomly assigned to watch a movie either with or without subliminal advertising.The group of participants that saw the movie without the ads is called the__________ .

Question 8

Before beginning an experiment,researchers use__________ to define exactly how variables like "intelligence" or "happiness" will be measured.

Question 9

Research participants in psychology studies must give___________ ,meaning that they are told about the experiment-including any potential risks-and then freely agree to participate.

Question 10

Before research findings can be published they go through _______,which is a process in which papers submitted to publication in scholarly journals are read and critiqued by experts in the specific field of study.