If a measurement of depression on a standardized depression inventory is useful in understanding an individual's depression, that measurement is said to
a. show good reliability
b. eliminate nonsampling error
c. be representative.
d. have validity.
An industrial-organizational psychologist who has been hired to study the causes of low morale at a particular manufacturing plant is probably conducting
a. applied research
b. developmental research
c. post hoc research
d. basic research
e. action research
The notion that a person identifies with a particular group of people based on ancestry, religion, or country of origin involves the concept of
a. ethnicity.
b. race.
c. physical culture.
d. psychological culture.
Cytowic (1993) wrote a book called The man who tasted shapes, which described a single person who experiences a stimulus with multiple senses (e.g., both taste and touch) where we would experience only one (e.g., taste).
This approach illustrates a
a. single-case experiment.
b. quasi-experimental study.
c. case study.
d. panel study.
A study that compared novice drivers and experienced drivers with respect to the relative number of driving errors they made while using a cell phone or not using a cell phone resulted in the same amount of deterioration in both groups.
This type of design
a. is appropriate for analysis with a t test.
b. involved two manipulated variables.
c. used a nonequivalent groups design.
d. used a reduced factorial design.
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