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What does it mean if hours spent watching TV and total number of discipline problems in school are correlated 0.0? - ️️Watching TV and disciplinary problems are not related.
What does it mean that hours spent watching TV and total number of discipline problems in school are correlated +.45? - ...
107 SmartBook Questions And Answers
What does it mean if hours spent watching TV and total number of discipline problems in school are
correlated 0.0? - ✔ ✔ Watching TV and disciplinary problems are not related.
What does it mean that hours spent watching TV and total number of discipline problems in school are
correlated +.45? - ✔ ✔ The more hours a child spends watching TV, the more likely that child will get
into trouble at school.
What is a hypothesis? - ✔ ✔ An educated guess that is derived logically from a theory.
What is a theory? - ✔ ✔ A broad term, or set of closely related ideas, that attempts to explain
certain observations.
What is a variable? - ✔ ✔ Anything that can change
What is random assignment? - ✔ ✔ The assignment of participants to research groups by chance
What is survey research? - ✔ ✔ a standard set of questions used to obtain people's self-reported
aptitudes or beliefs about a particular topic.
What is the difference between a theory and an opinion? - ✔ ✔ A theory is falsifiable, whereas on
opinion is not.
What is the differences between a behavior and a mental process? - ✔ ✔ Only behaviors can be
directly observed
When a researcher wants to correlate tension with depression, she develops tests that measure those
two emotional states. the tests are her _____ of the variables she is interested in. - ✔ ✔ operational
definitions
When can cause-and-effect determinations be made in psychological research? - ✔ ✔ When a true
experiment is conducted.
When researchers gather evidence and examine it logically, they are using this _____ method. - ✔ ✔
empirical
Which approach to psychology did Wilhelm Wundt endorse? - ✔ ✔ Structuralism
Which approach to psychology emphasizes the role of the physical processes, such as brain and nervous
system functioning? - ✔ ✔ Biological
_____ is the soundness of conclusions that can be drawn from an experiment. - ✔ ✔ Validity
, _____ research serves the purpose of determining the basic dimensions of a phenomenon and defining
what it is or how often it occurs, but it cannot provide casual information. - ✔ ✔ Descriptive
A _____ is a broad idea that can be used to make predictions about future observations. - ✔ ✔
theory
A behaviorist might study _____. - ✔ ✔ learning through conditioning
A(n) _____ _____ is the manipulated experimental factor in an experiment. - ✔ ✔ independent
variable
A(n) _____ is a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more variables believed to influence the
behavior being studies and manipulated while all other variables are held constant. - ✔ ✔
experiment
A(n) _____ is an idea arrived at logically from a theory. It can be thought of as an educated guess, and it
can be tested. - ✔ ✔ hypothesis
A(n) _____ study is an in-depth analysis of an individual or small group of people. - ✔ ✔ case study
Alice is answering a telephone survey about marital satisfaction in the United States. When asked about
her own marital satisfaction, she doesn't tell the researcher the truth because she worries that her
marriage is worse than many other marriages. Instead she says that she thinks other recipients might
say. The behavior is considered _____. - ✔ ✔ a drawback to the survey method
_____ is a broad term for any characteristic that can change in some way. - ✔ ✔ Variable
_____ is a historical approach advocated by William James that concentrated on mental processes and
the purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual's adaption to the environment. - ✔ ✔
Functionalism
_____ is an approach that concentrates on what the mind foes and the role of behavior in allowing
people to adapt to their environment. - ✔ ✔ Functionalism
_____ is a 19th century school of psychology that argues that breaking down mental processes into
elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior. - ✔ ✔ Structuralism
A random sample is a sample that gives every member of the _____ an equal chance of being selected. -
✔ ✔ population
A researcher finds that the more hours partied per week, the lower a student's GPA. She questions
whether there may be other issues affecting GPA that were not taken into account, such as hours
studies, whether the student is attending classes, or whether the student is working as well. What are
these additional issues called? - ✔ ✔ The third variable problem
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