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The ability of a research study or psychological instrument to consistently produce a given result is called ________.

A) validity
B) reliability
C) standardization
D) operationalization

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________ assesses the consistency of observations by different observers.

A) Attrition
B) Inter-rater reliability
C) A control group
D) Validity

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Dr. Mattar is interested in knowing more about brain injury to the occipital cortex, and he studies patients individually in order to gain in-depth knowledge about their behaviors. These studies would best be described as ________.

A(n) ________ is conducted in order to determine whether there are meaningful differences between two groups in a study.

Which word is the most appropriate synonym for the term validity?

The first woman to earn the PhD degree in psychology was ________.

________ is a reduction in the number of research participants as some drop out of the study over time.

What is the difference between a positive correlation and a negative correlation?

Professor Devine and her colleagues are interested in assessing whether active versus passive play causes a preference for sweet or salty foods in toddlers. They assign groups of children to either an active play, passive play, or no play group and record their food choices when presented with a variety of sweet and salty foods. In this study, ________ is the independent variable and ________ is the control group.

Sandra strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children's development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of ________.

A(n) ________ is a description of how the researchers will measure the variables of interest.

A(n) ________ is a well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena.

The scientific process is ________, involving both inductive and deductive reasoning.

Which of the following is not part of obtaining informed consent?

An upper-level psychology class is conducting an experiment on racial prejudice that involves having participants rate the likeability of faces in a set of photos. However, they tell participants that the study is about the effects of aging on likeability. When participants are finished, they are thanked for their time and leave the experiment. In this example, the class forgot to ________ in order to resolve the ________ in the study.

The belief that strange behavior is linked to the occurrence of a full moon is an example of a(n) ________.

Which of the following research designs will allow cause-and-effect conclusions?

Dr. Guttierez is examining a research question and has posted a hypothesis, but his student points out, "Dr. G., the assumption that you have made cannot be disproven no matter what data we gather!" This research study suffers from an absence of ________.

A(n) ________ variable is a factor that affects both variables of interest in research and may falsely give the impression of a cause-and-effect relationship.

Psychological knowledge is advanced through a process known as ________, which involves a prescribed series of steps designed to achieve the desired knowledge.