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PSYCH202B Final Exam - Research Methods Lab
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PSYCH202B Final Exam - Research Methods Lab
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1. In Daryl J. Bem's 'Writing the Empirical Journal Article,' the author recommends starting your discussion section discussing __________ and moving to ____________.
2. All of the following are limitations of observational studies EXCEPT:
3. What is the appropriate risk/benefit ratio you would hope to arrive at when conducting a risk assessment of your research project?
4. Published review articles may cite __________.
5. In Daryl J. Bem's 'Writing the Empirical Journal Article,' all of the following are recommended EXCEPT:
6. Which of the following can NOT be described as a descriptive, non-experimental approach?
7. If you conducted a study in which participants needed to be screened before participation, who of the following should complete the screening?
8. When should nonparametric statistics be used?
9. What would be the best PsycNET search resource to use to find a psychology book review?
10. In a normal distribution, where is the mean?
11. What can you conclude from a (fictional) correlational study that finds that girls are more likely to drop out of high school than boys?
12. According to Leland Wilkinson and the APA task force on statistical inference, the methods section should include all of the following EXCEPT:
13. In your literature review it is important to describe the articles, but it is also important to ___________.
14. According to what you have learned in this course, when doing research, which type of articles should you read first?
15. Based on your readings, two important guidelines to follow when choosing a research topic are to make sure that you have adequate resources to complete the process and that your topic _______.
16. A study comparing the effects of a treatment on one group with the effects of a different treatment on a comparison group could be called a ____________.
17. If you wanted to conduct a search of abstracts related to a particular topic in psychology, which of PsycNETs databases would be the best to use?
18. In Daryl J. Bem's 'Writing the Empirical Journal Article,' what naming convention is recommended for labeling groups or variables?
19. ________ tends to push reported scores toward one extreme, whereas ________ tends to cause reported scores to be above or below actual scores.
20. What type of research focuses on bringing findings from laboratory experiments to an applied setting?
21. Which of the following examples is true random assignment?
22. All of the following are possible operationalizations of success of people working in sales departments EXCEPT:
23. All of the following are key points that your readings suggest to look for when you first read an article EXCEPT:
24. What is wrong with the following hypothesis: 'Good children are less likely to drop out of college when they get older'?
25. Which of the following correlation coefficients represents a strong, inverse correlation?

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