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PSYC 255 Quiz 2 – Question and Answers

1. Correlational research does NOT establish
2. This chapter discusses research by the National Sleep Foundation finding that 36% of respondents reported falling asleep while driving.  These results were obtained from what type of research?
3. Researchers studied Clive Wearing to better understand which of the following phenomena?
4. Which of the following is an example of a source of information for archival research?
5. Social desirability occurs when….
6. Which of the following reasons would not be a disadvantage to conducting an ethnography?
7. Which of the following is not an advantage to survey research?
8. Which of the following is not a suggestion for survey construction?
9. The first step to survey construction is to think about the purpose of the survey.  This is important for all the reasons below except:
10. Gazdzinski and colleagues found that as weight increased for individuals, neuronal health decreased.  These results indicate what type of correlation?
11. Why might a researcher select to use a naturalistic observation?
12. Which of the following is not a suggestion for survey construction?
13. What type of research evaluates the relationship among variables?
14. For a project in your research methods class, you conducted a correlational research method.  You know that this method does not allow you to determine cause and effect.  Thus, you must ask yourself which of the following question (s) when you are looking at the results?
15. A(n) __________ is an in-depth observation of an individual, animal, event, or treatment method.
16. In this reliability assessment procedure, you repeat the split-half method multiple times and obtain an average of the correlation coefficients.
17. Which of the following is not one of the three most common types of validity?
18. Recently, the Mozart effect was studied by Jones and Estell by dividing high school participants into two groups.  The first group listened to Mozart’s music and the second group did not.  Both groups completed a series of spatial problems tasks.  In this example, what was the experimental group?
19. Which of the following statements best describes a subject variable?
20. The experimental group is the group of participants exposed to the __________.
21. Generally, in a well-designed study, the change observed in the dependent variable is a result of the _____.
22. Which of the following is considered to be the most common type of reliability assessment?
23. Which of the following is the most common type of reliability assessment?
24. Chapter 5 begins with an Are You Equipped exercise highlighting the impact of texting while walking.  In this example, the speed of walking served as the __________.
25. Which of the following statements is correct?
26. Recently, the Mozart effect was studied by Jones and Estell by dividing high school participants into two groups.  The first group listened to Mozart’s music and the second group did not.  Both groups completed a series of spatial problems tasks.  Results showed that the group of participants who listened to Mozart’s music had higher scores on the spatial problems tasks.  In this example, what is the independent variable?
27. A researcher is interested in determining if different exercise programs have an influence on the amount of weight that participants lose.  Upon arriving to the experiment, the researcher assigns the participants to different exercise programs and measures the amount of weight lost over a two-month period.  In this example, the amount of weight lost is the _________.
28. __________ is a reliability assessment used when a research design calls for multiple observers to observe an event.
29. Reliability is __________.
30. A variable is __________.