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Question 51

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Tara is in the 11th grade and is interested in studying the effects of text-messaging (rather than talking on the phone) on the quality of friendships. The FIRST step Tara would perform in order to follow the scientific method is ______.

A) forming a testable hypothesis
B) developing a theory
C) reviewing the literature of existing theories
D) designing a study

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Your text defines a hypothesis as a _____.

A) specific prediction about how one variable is related to another
B) precise definition of how variables will be observed and measured in a study
C) concept that explains previously gathered data
D) all of these options

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A new anti-depressant is being tested in a study in which neither the patient nor the physician knows whether a patient is getting the drug or the placebo. However, due to the reported side effects, a questionnaire given after the data are collected reveals the 85% of participants and patients were correct in identifying whether they were in the experimental or control condition. Contrary to design expectations, the experiment was not ________.

The term introspection means _______________

Dr. John Watson, from the _____ school of psychology, focused on objective, observable behavior rather than on the unconscious.

is used to analyze the findings of a research study.

A participant's agreement to take part in a study after being told what to expect is known as _____.

If a psychology teacher lets students earn extra credit by volunteering for research, he/she is ethically required to _____.

According to your textbook, the goals of psychology are to _____.

The term applied research is BEST defined as research that _____.

Stephanie wants to observe how her 2-year-old, Olivia, is behaving at daycare, so she sits in the back of the room to observe. Which research strategy is Stephanie trying to use?

Jack is studying psychology and wants to see how people behave when his friend enters an elevator and keeps her back to the door versus behavior when she stands near a doorway between classes. His research method is ____________ .

The biopsychosocial model is known as a(n) _______.

A "Freudian slip" is said to reveal:

_____ are manipulated; _____ are measured.

In a study to test the effects of alcohol on driving, you were in a group of participants that drove poorly. This means that ____.

Modern-day psychology emphasizes:

One of the BEST ways to deal with ethnocentrism in scientific research is to _____.

Which of the following therapists is NOT violating psychology's ethical standard of confidentiality?

The model that likens the mind to a computer that sequentially takes in information , processes it, and then produces a response is called the .