Psychology

If a psychologist is worried that a small sample will not reveal a real difference among groups, he

If a psychologist is worried that a small sample will not reveal a real difference among groups, he

If a psychologist is worried that a small sample will not reveal a real difference among groups, he or she might decide to increase the sample size.  This concern is likely to be real when
a.  the effect size is large.
b.  gr

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sulmaeater

If a psychologist observed that four 5-year-old children initiated 2, 4, 6, and 12 incidents of ...

If a psychologist observed that four 5-year-old children initiated 2, 4, 6, and 12 incidents of ...

If a psychologist observed that four 5-year-old children initiated 2, 4, 6, and 12 incidents of aggression during a play period, the mean number of aggressive incidents for this group of four children was
A) 9.
B) 6.
C) 5.
D) 4.

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tethead

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that ...

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that ...

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that most participants have ratings of either 8 or 16, the distribution of ratings is
A) unimodal.
B) normal.
C) bimodal.
D) recta

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Erhardt

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that ...

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that ...

If a psychologist rating empathic responses to strangers' distress on a scale of 1 to 20 finds that most participants have ratings of 8, 12 or 16, the distribution of ratings is
A) multimodal.
B) normal.
C) unimodal.
D) recta

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aeLiaL

If a psychologist studies a single individual in great depth, the approach is likely to involvea. o

If a psychologist studies a single individual in great depth, the approach is likely to involvea. o

If a psychologist studies a single individual in great depth, the approach is likely to involve
a.  observational research.
b.  correlational research.
c.  case study research
d.  qualitative research.

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sulmaeater

If a psychologist studying aggressive tendencies in people develops an inventory to measure ...

If a psychologist studying aggressive tendencies in people develops an inventory to measure ...

If a psychologist studying aggressive tendencies in people develops an inventory to measure aggression, the psychologist is using scores on the inventory as a(n)
A) variable.
B) invariable construct.
C) abstract concept.
D) descri

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tethead

If a psychologist studying exercise behavior found that one group of people exercised less than 1 ...

If a psychologist studying exercise behavior found that one group of people exercised less than 1 ...

If a psychologist studying exercise behavior found that one group of people exercised less than 1 hour per week, while another group all exercised more than 10 hours per week, the distribution would be __________.

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tethead

If a psychologist summarizes data for a variable in a frequency table, but finds that there are so ...

If a psychologist summarizes data for a variable in a frequency table, but finds that there are so ...

If a psychologist summarizes data for a variable in a frequency table, but finds that there are so many values for the variable that the table is too cumbersome to be useful, the next step would be to make a
A) frequency polygon.
B) bar cha

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Nicole Berry

If a psychologist testified in a courtroom about research that he or she conducted, exaggerating the

If a psychologist testified in a courtroom about research that he or she conducted, exaggerating the

If a psychologist testified in a courtroom about research that he or she conducted, exaggerating the importance and validity level of the results would be in violation of which General Ethical Principle of the American Psychological Association?

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sulmaeater

If a psychologist tests whether a new teaching method is more effective than the old one, the ...

If a psychologist tests whether a new teaching method is more effective than the old one, the ...

If a psychologist tests whether a new teaching method is more effective than the old one, the research hypothesis is that
A) the new teaching method is more effective than the old teaching method.
B) there is a difference in effectiveness b

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BritishGent

If a psychologist tests whether there is any difference between how fast people work in the morning ...

If a psychologist tests whether there is any difference between how fast people work in the morning ...

If a psychologist tests whether there is any difference between how fast people work in the morning versus how fast they work in the evening, the null hypothesis is that
A) there is a difference in worker speed, but no prediction is made.
B

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Erhardt

If a psychologist uses a research or clinical technique without adequate training and expertise in t

If a psychologist uses a research or clinical technique without adequate training and expertise in t

If a psychologist uses a research or clinical technique without adequate training and expertise in that technique, he or she may be in violation of which of the General Ethical Principles of the American Psychological Association?
a.  fidel

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sulmaeater

If a psychologist uses the score on the Beck Depression Inventory to represent the degree of depress

If a psychologist uses the score on the Beck Depression Inventory to represent the degree of depress

If a psychologist uses the score on the Beck Depression Inventory to represent the degree of depression a person experiences, that score is
a.  an operational definition of depression.
b.  a task variable reflecting depression.

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sulmaeater

If a psychologist wanted to study public behaviors in a group without intervening in the group or ev

If a psychologist wanted to study public behaviors in a group without intervening in the group or ev

If a psychologist wanted to study public behaviors in a group without intervening in the group or even letting others know that they were being observed, the most likely approach would be
a.  observational research.
b.  correlatio

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sulmaeater

If a radio play-by-play announcer describing each pitch during a baseball game fails to notice a ...

If a radio play-by-play announcer describing each pitch during a baseball game fails to notice a ...

[html]If a radio play-by-play announcer describing each pitch during a baseball game fails to notice a naked fan running across the infield, what would the announcer be demo

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Charlotte Bishop

If a randomized ANOVA produced SSbetween = 35 and SSwithin = 15, then 2 would be:

If a randomized ANOVA produced SSbetween = 35 and SSwithin = 15, then 2 would be:

If a randomized ANOVA produced SSbetween = 35 and SSwithin = 15, then 2 would be:
 
  a. 35/50 x 100 = 70.
  b. 50/35 x 100 = 143.
  c. 15/50 x 100 = 30.
  d. unable to determine.


If a randomized ANOVA produce

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boobear86

If a rat always receives a shock following the presentation of an 800-Hz tone, it will show a ...

If a rat always receives a shock following the presentation of an 800-Hz tone, it will show a ...

If a rat always receives a shock following the presentation of an 800-Hz tone, it will show a stronger fear response to the presentation of a(n) _____ tone than a _____ tone.
 
  A) 820-Hz; 1000-Hz
  B) 1000-Hz; 900-Hz
  C) 620

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lkjbhuib

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response ...

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response ...

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response permanently ceases to produce any food, then _______ will occur.
a. shaping
b. discrimination
c. generalization
d. extinction

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alowishus

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response p

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response p

If a rat has learned to press a lever to obtain pellets of food and, all of a sudden, the response permanently ceases to produce any food, then _______ will occur.
a.   acquisition
b.   extinction
c.   generalization
d.   discrimination

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Nelly

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat will often __________ the object.

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poker.face

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat ...

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat ...

If a rat is hurt by a small object in a test chamber containing commercial bedding material, the rat will often __________ the object.
 
  Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

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jacebrowndog

If a rat receives a single painful stimulus from a small object in a test box containing commercial

If a rat receives a single painful stimulus from a small object in a test box containing commercial

If a rat receives a single painful stimulus from a small object in a test box containing commercial bedding material, the rat will usually investigate the object and then
A) flee.
B) bury it.
C) dig a tunnel.
D) escape.

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poker.face

If a rat that is responding on a VI 60-sec schedule of food reinforcement also starts receiving free ...

If a rat that is responding on a VI 60-sec schedule of food reinforcement also starts receiving free ...

If a rat that is responding on a VI 60-sec schedule of food reinforcement also starts receiving free food on a VT 20-sec schedule, then the rate of response on the VI schedule will likely
 
  A) increase.
  B) decrease.
  C) re

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andyf12

If a rat with its hair erect, moves sideways towards another rat and then pushes against it, the

If a rat with its hair erect, moves sideways towards another rat and then pushes against it, the

If a rat with its hair erect, moves sideways towards another rat and then pushes against it, the
A) first rat is likely sexually motivated.
B) second rat is likely a female.
C) first rat is likely a female.
D) first rat is lik

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poker.face

If a raw score is 28 in a distribution in which the M = 20 and the SD = 2, the Z score is ...

If a raw score is 28 in a distribution in which the M = 20 and the SD = 2, the Z score is ...

If a raw score is 28 in a distribution in which the M = 20 and the SD = 2, the Z score is __________.

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Erhardt

If a reader of an APA style report wants to read about original research that was cited in an APA st

If a reader of an APA style report wants to read about original research that was cited in an APA st

If a reader of an APA style report wants to read about original research that was cited in an APA style report, the reader can find the important information about citations in what section of the report?
a.  introduction
b.  resu

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sulmaeater

If a regression line goes down one unit for every two it moves across going from left to right, b = ...

If a regression line goes down one unit for every two it moves across going from left to right, b = ...

If a regression line goes down one unit for every two it moves across going from left to right, b = __________. (Give a number.)

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BritishGent

If a repeated-measures analysis of variance usually has an error term that is smaller that the error ...

If a repeated-measures analysis of variance usually has an error term that is smaller that the error ...

If a repeated-measures analysis of variance usually has an error term that is smaller that the error term in the corresponding between-subjects design, then we can assume that
 
  a. repeated-measures designs have less power.
  b. rep

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michjfrg88

If a research article does not report the variance estimates, R2

If a research article does not report the variance estimates, R2

If a research article does not report the variance estimates, R2
A) cannot be figured.
B) can be figured by F(dBetween)/[F(dfBetween) + dfWithin].
C) can be estimated by SM/SWithin.
D) can be figured by F/dfWithin.

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Erhardt

If a research article included a statement that "level of intensity was compared to reaction ...

If a research article included a statement that "level of intensity was compared to reaction ...

If a research article included a statement that "level of intensity was compared to reaction time using a Wilcoxon rank-sum test," the statistical test was a(n) __________ test.

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aeLiaL

If a research article presented the results of an analysis of variance as, "F(2, 38) = 3.60, p ...

If a research article presented the results of an analysis of variance as, "F(2, 38) = 3.60, p ...

If a research article presented the results of an analysis of variance as, "F(2, 38) = 3.60, p < .05," then how many groups were there in the study?
A) 40
B) 41
C) 2
D) 3

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aeLiaL

If a research article reported an analysis of variance as F(4, 45) = 3.82, p < .01, then there ...

If a research article reported an analysis of variance as F(4, 45) = 3.82, p < .01, then there ...

If a research article reported an analysis of variance as F(4, 45) = 3.82, p < .01, then there were __________ groups in the study.

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Erhardt

If a research article reports that "The mean performance scores for the Normal Sleep, Reduced ...

If a research article reports that "The mean performance scores for the Normal Sleep, Reduced ...

If a research article reports that "The mean performance scores for the Normal Sleep, Reduced Sleep, and No Sleep groups were 18.0, 16.6, and 15.6, respectively, F(2, 36) = 2.95, p < .05," the most accurate conclusion is that
A) the

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jana1

If a research participant confused a visually presented P with a V in STM we might conclude based on ...

If a research participant confused a visually presented P with a V in STM we might conclude based on ...

If a research participant confused a visually presented P with a V in STM we might conclude based on this evidence that STM codes:
 
  A) auditory information
  B) visual information
  C) syntactic information
  D) semantic

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yd

If a research participant is engaged in a research task and takes it seriously, that study willa. s

If a research participant is engaged in a research task and takes it seriously, that study willa. s

If a research participant is engaged in a research task and takes it seriously, that study will
a.  show acceptable use of the double blind design.
b.  have high levels of experimental realism.
c.  not result in causal a

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sulmaeater

If a research project is set up so everybody in the population of interest has an equal chance of be

If a research project is set up so everybody in the population of interest has an equal chance of be

If a research project is set up so everybody in the population of interest has an equal chance of being included, the research involves
a.  quota sampling.
b.  judgmental sampling.
c.  probability sampling.
d. 

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sulmaeater

If a research study is confounded, then the ________ of the experiment ________.

If a research study is confounded, then the ________ of the experiment ________.

If a research study is confounded, then the ________ of the experiment ________. 
A) external validity; decreases
B) external validity; increases
C) internal validity; decreases
D) internal validity; increases

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yerlidalton

If a research study reveals a difference between two groups that seems to be due to the independent

If a research study reveals a difference between two groups that seems to be due to the independent

If a research study reveals a difference between two groups that seems to be due to the independent variable but, in reality, the difference was due to some other variable that the experimenter didn’t know about, there is a problem with
a. 

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sulmaeater

If a research team is going to Chicago to conduct a study on latent learning, they would be most ...

If a research team is going to Chicago to conduct a study on latent learning, they would be most ...

If a research team is going to Chicago to conduct a study on latent learning, they would be most interested in interviewing a ____.
 
  a. taxi driver who can give directions to a location hes never visited
  b. street performer who l

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Kingdomcastle

If a researcher calculated a correlation coefficient of r = 1.27 between two variables, you would ...

If a researcher calculated a correlation coefficient of r = 1.27 between two variables, you would ...

If a researcher calculated a correlation coefficient of r = 1.27 between two variables, you would conclude that there is a(n):
 
  a. high correlation
 b. very low correlation
 c. error in the calculation
 d. moderately low

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illyannam1