FINAL EXAM

Final Exam



Final Exam

MCQ's

Question # 1:

d.A teacher compares active versus passive learning strategies in two sections of her abnormal psychology course.

Question # 2:

c. this is acceptable paraphrasing as long as you use a parenthetical citation like this: (Johnson, 1992).

Question # 3:

a. case study

Question # 4:

b. Correlation

Question # 5:

d. None of the above; it is not appropriate to make causal claims based on correlational data.

Question # 6:

a. independent

Question # 7:

c. the students' ratings of the applicants' success1

Question # 8:

b. nondirectional research hypothesis.

Question # 9:

c. the two teachers

Question # 10:

b. you are more sure that the null hypothesis is wrong.

Question # 11:

d. confounded.

Question # 12:

d. ordinal

Question # 13:

b. mode.

Question # 14:

b. median

Question # 15:

mean

Question # 16:

68.26%

Question # 17:

b. two-tailed test

Question # 18:

c. increase; decrease

Question # 19:

b. random assignment

Question # 20:

b. She has confounded gender and type of television program.

Question # 21:

c. three-way ANOVA

Question # 22:

d. repeated-measures three-factor ANOVA

Question # 23:

35

Question # 24:

c. reactions to negative feedback

Question # 25:

c. selection

Question # 26:

d. All of the above are differences between a quasi-experiment and an ex post facto design

Question # 27:

b. The author who made the most important contribution should be listed first.

Question # 28:

c. The introduction should begin broadly and then narrow to a specific focus.

Question # 29:

a. The effect of alcohol dosage on ratings of perpetrator responsibility was significant, F(2, 27) = 17.70, p > .05.

Question # 30:

d. Place a lowercase a or b after the date of each reference

Question # 31:

d. 5

Question # 32:

b. The participants were paid, debriefed, and dismissed.

Question # 33:

d. All of the above can be considered hypotheses

Question # 34:

c. This project is not testable.

Question # 35:

d. Naturalistic observation may be the only way to examine certain types of variables.

Question # 36:

a. "Do you agree that wealthy professional athletes are overpaid?"

Question # 37:

a. external validity.

Question # 38:

c. selection

Question # 39:

b. mortality.

Question # 40:

d. If the groups are not equivalent at the start of an experiment, we cannot be certain that the IV caused any difference observed in the DV.

Question # 41:

c. economics

Question # 42:

c. zero

Question # 43:

c. Cathy's results supported the hypothesis.

Question # 44:

c. ratio

Question # 45:

b.college male students.

Essays

Essays # 1

Deception

Deception is defined as (1) withholding information in order to get subjects to participate in something that they might otherwise decline, (2) using deceptive instructions and manipulations in laboratory research, or (3) concealing and staging manipulations in field research. Deception can also be explained as representing one's work as something other than what it really is. Deception varies in degree. A low degree of deception may consist of a researcher giving the participant limited knowledge about a subject so that he or she will respond naturally. A high degree of deception may consist of the researcher lying about the purpose of the study, or about his or her reason for participation in a particular group (Kimmel, 2012). For example a researchers is conducting a research on effects of using drugs by teenagers and do not disclose this fact to the ...