PSYCH 202 FINAL EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS.
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Psych 202
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Psych 202
Dr. Gray is interested in understanding how motor skills develop from birth to 2 years of age. He decides to carefully observe his own child's motor skills for the child's first 2 years of life. Every day he writes down detailed notes on his observations. Dr. Gray conducted what type of study?
a...
PSYCH 202 FINAL EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS.
Dr. Gray is interested in understanding how motor skills develop from birth to 2 years of age. He decides
to carefully observe his own child's motor skills for the child's first 2 years of life. Every day he writes
down detailed notes on his observations. Dr. Gray conducted what type of study?
a. case study
b. meta-analysis
c. twin study
d. correlational study
e. experimental study - Answer a
Eve hypothesized that hotter outside temperatures lead to more violence. For one year, in 10 different
cities throughout the US, she measured both the maximum outside temperature and the number of
violent crimes. She found a correlation coefficient of 0.5. What can she conclude?
a. temperature and violent crimes are totally unrelated
b. higher temperatures are associated with greater amounts of violence
c. higher temperatures cause lower amounts of violence
d. higher temperatures cause greater amounts of violence - Answer b
A 5 year old patient has damage to one specific area of his parietal lobe. This particular part is almost
never naturally damaged, so a neurologist has no idea what the consequences of the damage might be.
He takes a full on medical histoyry of the patient, orders a number of brains scans, and measures the
patient's cognitive abilities, physical abilities, personality traits, and emotional responses. Due to this
rarity of this type of damage, Jonas publishes his findings in a peer-reviewed scientific study. What type
of study have Jonas conducted?
a. case study
b. cross-sectional
,c. meta-analysis
d. experimental
e. correlational - Answer a
A patient suffered a stroke that has severely damaged his pre-frontal cortex. Over the course of several
months, Diana intensively studies her patient, giving him many background questionnaires and
psychological tests. This would be best described as a:
a. correctional
b. experimental study
c. case study
d. survey study
e. naturalistic observation study - Answer c
Bec is conducting a study on memory. She recruits 500 participants. She first asks the participants to
indicate how many foreign countries they have visited in their life. She then shows each participant a
world map and asks them to label as many countries as they can. Finally, after the participants finish, Bec
asks the participants to indicate how many countries they think they labeled correctly. Which type of
study did Bec design?
a. observational
b. case study
c. correlational
d. experimental
e. meta-analysis - Answer c
Diana is a neurologist in a major hospital. A patient comes into her office that has suffered a stroke that
has severely damaged his frontal lobe. Over the course of several months, Diana intensively studies her
patient, giving him many background questionnaires and psychological tests. This would best be
described as a:
A) Survey Study
, B) Correlational Study
C) Naturalistic Observation Study
D) Experimental Study
E) Case Study - Answer e
Tom and Jenna have a Psychology exam coming up. They both spend a total of 16 hours preparing for the
exam. Tom studies for 8 hours per day for each of the two days before the exam. Jenna studies for one
hour per day for each of the sixteen days before the exam. Based upon the practice spacing principle,
________ would be expected to perform better on the test because his/her practice was more
_________.
A) Tom; distributed
B) Tom; massed
C) Jenna; distributed
D) Jenna; massed
E) They would be expected to perform the same; because they studied for the same total amount of
time - Answer c
Tina hypothesizes that the more time 12-year-old children spend watching television, the lower their
scores will be on a standardized math test. To test this, Tina asks 200 12-year-old children how much
television they watch. She then examines how their reported television watching time relates to their
performance on the standardized math test. What type of method did Tina use?
A) Experimental
B) Case Study
C) Correlational
D) Twin Study
E) Delayed Match to Sample - Answer c
Tina finds that in general, the more television a 12-year-old child watches, the poorer his/her
performance will be on the standardized math test. Tina thus concludes that watching television causes
poorer standardized math test performance in 12-year olds. What is the main problem with this
conclusion?
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