Deck 2: C: Research Methods

Question 1

The goal of inferential statistics is to ____ our results to other similar samples.

Answer 1

apply or generalize

Question 2

Jay is writing an article for the school newspaper about student attendance.His main point is that during the final semester of one's senior year,a student is more likely to miss school.Data obtained from his principal indicates that on any given day 17 percent of the senior class is absent (compared with 12 percent of juniors,13 percent of sophomores,and 16 percent of freshmen).His headline reads "Senioritis: A Real Phenomenon." He has engaged in use of the misleading tool of ____.

Answer 2

leveling

Question 3

Causal inferences are only possible with a(n) ____ design.

Answer 3

experimental

Question 4

The ability to state that differences in the conditions of the independent variable led to the observed differences in the dependent variable is lessened when a ____ variable is present in one's research design.

Question 5

According to the authors,many examples of superstitious behaviour are the result of ____.

Question 6

The major advantage of a correlational design over a naturalistic observation or a case study design is that a correlational design allows us to ____.

Question 7

If a researcher investigated the topic of aggression by simply recording instances of aggression on a school playground,in a place of business,in a nightclub,and in many other everyday settings,he or she would be using the research design of ____.

Question 8

____ is the most important part of ensuring the generalizability of one's results to the general population.

Question 9

Dr.Friesz asks his research assistant to gather information on how his data are clustering together on the variable,average daily temperature for December.He is asking for a measure of ____.

Question 10

In most experimental and correlational studies,the researcher is required to obtain the participant's ____.

Question 11

One important limitation of the experimental design is that when research participants know what condition they have been assigned to,this knowledge,rather than the independent variable,may be the cause of the differences observed in the dependent variable.This is known as the ____ effect.

Question 12

An important concern in research is that people will respond in a manner that conveys a specific impression rather than in a way that reflects his or her true behaviour.When people do this to make themselves appear more skilled than they really are,they are engaging in the response set of ____.

Question 13

Before one's research is published in a scientific journal,it must be evaluated in terms of its accuracy and contribution to the field.This evaluation is referred to as ____.

Question 14

If a statistician asks you,his assistant,to calculate the middle score from a data set,he is asking you to determine the value of the ____.

Question 15

When neither the experimenter nor the participant have any knowledge of the experimental condition to which the participant has been assigned,we say that this is a ____ study.

Question 16

Dr.Barrios is examining the relationship between student scores on a practice test in his senior-level class with their actual performance,with different questions,on his first exam.If there is consistency or stability in these scores,Dr.Barrios would be able to say that ____ exists.

Question 17

The preferred measure of dispersion in descriptive statistics is the ____.

Question 18

The degree of statistical association between two variables is the focus of ____ designs.

Question 19

If a professor gave an exam and the entire class scored within the C range,this would be similar to the rating error known as ____.