Understand psychological research quiz

Predictions can be made if you have ___ data

• observational

• Descriptive

• Correctional

• Field

Correlational

Which of the following is not a tool that can be used in empirical research

• a microscope

• A telescope

• Content analysis

• The human eye

Content analysis

The __ approach involves directly observing the topic of interest

• empirical

• Rational

• Deductive

• Correlational

Empirical

Professor partridge has 9 seven year olds and 9 nine year olds study a set of pictures. He then asks the participants to verbally describe as many different pictures as possible. In this experiment the independent variable is

• the # of participants

• How many pcitures were presents

• Age

• How many pictures were recalled

The # of participants

The only research method that can be used to explain what caused a change in a variable is __ research

• Correlational

• Rational

• Experimental

• Observational

Experimental

A correlation allows a research to

• describe the relationship between two variables

• Describes something in great detail

• Collect data in the field

• Make casual inferences

Describe the relationship between two variables

Professor west has 30 participants drink either 0mg, 2mg or 4mg of caffeine mixed in juice before completing two tasks; a response time take and a memory task. In this experiment the independent variable is

• the # of participants

• The memory task

• The amount of caffeine consumed

• The response time

The amount of caffeine consumed

A variable that is measured in an experiment is called

• a correlations variable

• An empirical variable

• A dependent variable

• An independent variable

A dependent variable

If a research study has an independent variable it must be

• field research

• An observational study

• A correlation study

• An experiment

An experiment

An experiment can be conducted

• only in a field setting

• Only in a laboratory

• Anywhere

• Only using a computer

Anywhere

Professor Ahmed brings 2 year olds into the lab and has them interact with toys. Professor Ahmed records which toys the children play with for the longest. This is an example of a __ study

• observational

• Field

• Experimental

• Correlational

Observational

Professor Mendez wants to know how people develop stereotypes. In order to understand how, professor Mendez will have to

• conduct an experiment

• Collect descriptive data

• Collect correlational data

• Do field research

Conduct an experiment

In an experiment, a researcher can make claims about causation if

• changing the dependent variable resulted in changes in the independent variable

• There are confounding variables

• Changing the independent variable resulted in changes in the dependent variable

• Only the confounding variables are controlled

Changing the independent variable resulted in changes in the dependent variable

Researches conduct __ when they want to establish causation

• Correlational studies

• Observational studies

• Field research

• Experiments

Observational studies

An experimenter had groups of one to four people look up at the sky on a street corner and measured what proration of people who walked by also looked up. This is an example of

• a correlational study

• An observational study

• Predictive research

• An experiment

An experiment

Professor enfield has 8 ten year olds and 8 fifteen year olds study a book about beekeeping for either 5 minutes or 10 minutes and then recall as much information as possible. In this experiment, the dependent variable is

• the amount of time spent studying

• The # of participants

• Recall the beekeeping information

• The age of the participation

Recall the beekeeping information

Professor tan found a strong correlation between SAT scores and introductory psychology grades for students at his college. His data will allow him to

• explain what causes high SAT scores

• Explain what causes high introductory psychology grades

• Describe how student study for introductory psychology texts

• Predict a student introductory psychology score based on their SAT scores

Predict a students introductory psychology score based on their SAT scores

Professor Patel is conducting observational research on children in kindergarten. Her data will make it possible for her to

• make predictions

• Explain causation

• Describe the children

• Make allusions

Describe the children

If a researcher wants to know the relationship between two variables that they cannot manipulate in laboratory, such as the average temperature and the amount of carbon emitted in a given year, the researcher can

• compute a correlation

• Describe the two variables

• Conduct field research

• Conduct an experiment

Compute a correlation

Observation studies can only produce

• Experimental data

• Descriptive data

• Predictive data

• Causal data

Descriptive data