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PSYC 228 EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
"In a study, researchers discovered that as the number of hours spent watching
television increased, grades decreased. This study is an example of what type of
research method?" - ANSWER: correlational
Elvis wanted to see whether taste sensitivity to spice was modified by bacon fat. He
put in 30 milligrams of cayenne pepper on burger patties. He gave 2 burgers to each
participant. One burger had two pieces of bacon and the other had no bacon. He had
47 hungry college students to be in his study. He measured heat rating. What is the
dependent variable? - ANSWER: heat rating
Elvis wanted to see whether taste sensitivity to spice was modified by bacon fat. He
put in 30 milligrams of cayenne pepper on burger patties. He gave 2 burgers to each
participant. One burger had two pieces of bacon and the other had no bacon. He had
47 hungry college students to be in his study. He measured heat rating. What kind of
study is this? - ANSWER: experiment
What does a very small standard deviation tell you? - ANSWER: it means that the
data points tend to be close to the mean
Korra collected demographic data on socio-economic status and cognitive
achievement. What level of variable is Zip Code? - ANSWER: nominal
The standard deviation is always - ANSWER: the square root of the variance
A count of the number of cigarettes a person smokes in a day is an example of ___.
(Check all that applies.) - ANSWER: ratio variable
a discrete variable
The mode is the appropriate measure of central tendency when the scale of
measurement is - ANSWER: nominal
"Cadence found that levels of narcissism in individuals correlated with eating
disorders after looking at 1068 patient records and personality test results. Given the
passage above, what is true about Cadence's data?" - ANSWER: the relationship
between narcissism and eating disorders could be caused by another variable
The paper is not APA-style. If you were to make the PNAS paper APA-style, what
would you do? - ANSWER: Put the Method section before the Result section
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
, In study 3 of the paper, what kind of design did they use? - ANSWER: correlation
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
In Study 1 of the paper, how was wealth operationalized? - ANSWER: make, age and
appearance of car
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
In study 7, what was the independent variable? - ANSWER: greed
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
What inferential test was used in Study 7? - ANSWER: independent samples t-test
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
Look at Figure 2 of the paper (Graph). According to the graph, what does a Greed
prime do? - ANSWER: increases unethical behavior
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
Study 4 of the paper indicates that an experiment was conducted. What was their
independent variable? - ANSWER: lower or higher social class mindset
Use the Piff, et al (2012) paper to answer the following:
According to study 7, how was greed induced? - ANSWER: participants were asked to
list 3 ways that greed can be good
"Jenna looked at the role of the Montessori method in the development of cognitive
abilities. She tracked 250 children who were enrolled across 8 Montessori schools,
starting from the age of 3 years of age until 18 years of age, and measured their
verbal and non-verbal abilities every 5 years. She also tracked a control group of 200
children from non-Montessori background. She also gave them a object tracking task
that ranged from 2 object to 8 objects. This kind of study is: " - ANSWER: a quasi
experiment
what is true of the research process - ANSWER: Researchers rarely stop at one study
— they usually follow up on findings with additional studies.
Tasha asked whether or not parental income affected reading fluency scores in
Hispanic-American students. Can this question be evaluated using a Pearson
correlation analysis? - ANSWER: none of the available answers
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