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Psychology 1004 Test 1A psychologist monitors a group of children in a nursery school, recording each instance
of altruistic behaviour when it occurs. Which research method is the psychologist using?
- ANS - Naturalistic observation
A research study examines the effect of a new teaching technique in students'
achievement test scores. Which student characteristic would be considered an important
extraneous variable? - ANS - IQ scores
A researcher found that clients who were randomly assigned to same sex groups
participated in group therapy sessions to a greater extent than clients who were
randomly assigned to co-ed groups. What is the independent variable in this experiment?
- ANS - Whether or not the group was co-ed
A researcher is interested in how heart rate and blood pressure are affected by viewing a
violent film sequence as opposed to a nonviolent film sequence. What is the Independent
variable and dependent variable? - ANS - IV: Film violence (present vs absence)
DV: Heart rate and blood pressure (There are two DVDs)
A researcher wants to find out how stimulus complexity and stimulus contrast (light/dark
variation) affect infants' attention to stimuli. He manipulates stimulus complexity and
stimulus contrast and measures how long infants stare at various stimuli. What is the
independent variable and dependent variable? - ANS - IV: Stimulus complexity (high vs
low) and stimulus contrast (High vs low) (there are two IV)
DV: Length of time spent staring at the stimuli
A researcher wants to see whether a protein-enriched diet will enhance the maze-running
performance of rats. For the duration of the study, the researcher feeds one group of
rats. For the duration of the study, the researcher feeds one group of rats a high-protein
diet, while the other group continues to receive its regular diet. In this experiment, what
is the term used to describe the maze-running performance of the rats - ANS - Dependent
variable
A social psychologist investigates the impact of group size on subject's conformity in
response to group pressure. What is the independent variable and dependent variable? -
ANS - IV: Group size (large vs small)
DV: Conformity
Achievement Motive - ANS - Need to master difficult challenges, to out perform others,
and to meet high standards of excellence
Achievement tests - ANS - Gauge a persons' mastery and knowledge of various subjects
,Affective forecasting - ANS - Efforts to predict one's emotional reaction to future events
Affiliating motive - ANS - Need to associate with other and maintain social bonds
Alfred Binet - ANS - Invented the first practical IQ test. Used mental age and measured
reasoning skills
All 200 of these applicants are hired and put to work selling computers, After six months,
Professor Sam correlates the new workers' aptitude test scores with the dollar value of
the computers that each sold during the first six months on the job. This correlation
turns out to by -0.21. This finding suggests the test may lack_________ - ANS -
Criterion-related validity
An organizational psychologist develops a new training program to improve clerks'
courtesy toward customers in a large chain of retail stores. She conducts an experiment
to see whether the training program leads to a reduction in the number of customer
complaints. What is the independent variable and dependent variable? - ANS - IV:
Courtesy training (Training vs no training)
DV: Number of customer complaints
Anecdotal evidence - ANS - Consists of personal stories about specific incidents and
experiences
Aptitude test - ANS - Asses specific types of mental abilities
Argument - ANS - Consists of one or more premises that are used to provide support for
a conclusion
Arthur Jensen - ANS - Intelligence is largely genetic in origin and therefore genetic
factors are strongly implicated as the cause of ethnic differences in intelligence
Assumptions - ANS - Premises for which no proof or evidence is offered
At the request of the HiTechnol and computer store chain, Professor Sam develops a test
to measure aptitude for selling computers. Two hundred applicants for sales hobs at
HiTechnol and stores are asked to take the test on two occasions, a few weeks apart. A
correlation of +0.82 is found between applicants's scores on the two administrations of
the test. Thus, the test appears to possess reasonable_________ - ANS - Test-retest
reliability
At which step of the research process did researchers create operational definitions for
their variables? - ANS - Step 1: Formulate a testable hypothesis
, Back at the university, Professor Sam is teaching a course in theories of personality. He
decides to use the same midterm exam that he gave last year even though the exam
includes questions about theorists that he did not cover or assign reading on this year.
There are reasons to doubt the ____________ of Professor Sams midterm exam - ANS -
Content Validity
Behavioural Component of Emotions - ANS - People can accurately and quickly discern
emotions from facial expressions
Between subjects design - ANS - Each participant is in only one condition
Binet and Simon - ANS - Focused on assessing children and identifying mentally
subnormal ones
Used abstract reasoning skills
Used mental age to say if a child was average, advanced or retarded
Biological correlates of intelligence - ANS - Research indicates that both white and grey
matter in the brain are important in determining intelligence. New research also indicates
that gyrification is positively correlated with intelligence
Bisexual - ANS - Likes members of either sex
Body Mass Index BMI - ANS - An individual's weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in
meters) sqared
Brain and behavioural component - ANS - Neural correlates of emotions measure brain
activity. They found a baseline array of brain areas active in neutral face processing
(fusiform gyrus) but additional areas active in response to non-neutral emotions
Can sight and smell of food affect appetite - ANS - When you see or smell food your
insulin levels can rise
Cannon-Bard - ANS - Stimulus>Subcortical brain activity > conscious feeling+Autonomic
arousal (simultaneously)
Thalamus sends info in two directions simultaneously to the cortex and amygdala
Case study - ANS - An in depth investigation of an individual subject
CCK - ANS - is secreted by the intestine and acts on the hypothalamus to decrease
hunger/food intake
Choice - ANS - Is often kept in check by their associated costs which are also what
makes them good indicators
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