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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. What can you conclude from a (fictional) correlational study that finds that girls are more likely to drop out of high school than boys?
2. When conducting an online literature search, all of the following are ways of narrowing the search results EXCEPT:
3. Which of the following correlation coefficients represents a strong, inverse correlation?
4. A study looking at how certain components of multi-faceted treatment programs work in a highly controlled laboratory environment is an example of which of the following?
5. 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 _______.
6. The APA task force recommends which of the following when choosing the method of analysis?
7. What is the relationship of the mean, median, and mode in a normal distribution?
8. Which of the following are possible threats to true experimental designs?
9. Which scale of measurement would be used when measuring weight?
10. What made Jerry Burger's study a partial replication rather than full replication of Milgram's obedience studies, which began in 1961?
11. Which of the following is an example of cluster sampling?
12. After you have identified a couple articles from a particular line of research, what would be the best parameter to search by to find any other articles in that particular line of research?
13. Which of the following is NOT one of the search databases included in PsycNET?
14. Which of the following is an example of simple random sampling?
15. According to Leland Wilkinson and the APA task force on statistical inference, the case for the representativeness of a convenience sample can be strengthened by which of the following?
16. What limitation of a nonequivalent group, posttest only design is addressed by a nonequivalent group, pretest-posttest design?
17. In Daryl J. Bem's 'Writing the Empirical Journal Article,' which of the following is NOT recommended for the results section?
18. In Daryl J. Bem's 'Writing the Empirical Journal Article,' he recommends that any ethical issues that may have arisen as a result of the procedure should be addressed in which section of the article?
19. The APA task force states all of the following regarding effect sizes EXCEPT:
20. A(an) ________ scale has a meaningful zero point.
21. In a normal distribution, where is the mean?
22. Which of the following are possible potential risks to consider when conducting research involving human subjects?
23. If you conduct a study in which you want to be able to generalize to certain subsets of the population as well as the population as a whole, what would be the best sampling method to use?
24. ________ designs look at causation, whereas ________ studies are descriptive.Fill in the blanks.
25. All of the following are limitations of observational studies EXCEPT: