Seeking answers by reading a chapter in a college textbook is an example of using the

Magazine advertisements that use celebrities to sell makeup employ which method of acquiring knowledge?

A group of students in a cooking class is trying to find a faster way to bake a cake.  They know that it takes 30 minutes to bake a cake at 350 degrees, so they figure that it should take only 15 minutes at 700 degrees.  These students are using the _________ to solve the problem.

You find some mushrooms growing in your backyard and want to find out whether or not they are poisonous, so you eat a few and see what happens.  This is an example of the ______ of knowing or acquiring knowledge.

An explanation is empirical if it is based on

Based on limited experience with daises in my flower garden, I have concluded that these flowers require almost no care at all.  This conclusion is an example of

A hypothesis is

Using a general hypothesis to develop a testable predication involves the use of

Which of the following is not a basic characteristic of scientific research?

A good hypothesis must

For which of the following questions would the scientific method be an appropriate method for seeking an answer?

Using observations of humans to form a hypothesis about human behavior is an example of

Research studies that are intended to answer practical problems would be classified as______________.

An empirical journal article is an example of a ____________ source. 

A _____________ source summarizes information from sources of original research reports.

A newspaper article discussing someone's research is an example of a __________ source.

The goal in conducting a literature search is to _____________.

The introduction section of a research article typically ______________.

The method section of a research article typically _______________.

After a research idea is found, the next step is to ____________.

Which is the correct order of parts in a research reports?

The method section of an APA-style research report _______________.

The brief summary found at the beginning of most research reports is the ___________.

Most journals in psychology follow the writing style established by the ____________. 

Which of the following is the focus of ethical concern?

Which of the following is a concern for research ethics?

Prior to the end of WWII, guidelines for research ethics were established ____________.

The Belmont Report provides basic ethical guidelines for _______________.

Which of the following is not an ethical principle identified in the Belmont Report?

Although the intent of informed consent is to provide participants with complete information about a research study before they agree to participate, often this is impossible because ____________.

If a researcher explains what will happen in a research study using language that potential participants probably cannot understand, then the researcher has violated the intent of ____________.

If individuals are pressured into participating in research because the research is in a position of power or authority, then which ethical principle is being compromised?

Which of the following examples violates the ethical guidelines concerning deception?

A researcher who tells participants that a questionnaire is measuring political attitudes when in fact it is measuring racial prejudices, is committing _____________. 

Confidentiality _______________.

If a researcher tells stories at a party describing the behavior of individual participants in his or her research study, then which ethical principle is being compromised?

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is responsible for reviewing ______________.

Fraud involves _____________.

Assuming that a full citation is included, which of the following would not be an example of plagiarism?

A variable such as intelligence that cannot be seen or measured directly is know as a(n) __________.

It is possible for psychologists to study variables such as hunger, motivation, and self-esteem because these variables can be measured by ______________.

One measurement concern is that ______________.

Using number of facial smiles in a 60-second period as a definition and a measurement of happiness is an example of ________ happiness.

A measurement procedure is valid if it _______________.

You develop a new measure of self-efficacy and you find that people who score high on your measure also score high on a standardized measure of self-efficacy.  You have demonstrated _______________.

A research study reports that participants who scored high on a new test measuring self-esteem made eye contact during an interview whereas participants who scored low on the test avoided eye contact.  Assuming that more eye contact is associated with higher self-esteem, this study is a demonstration of ________ validity.

A(n) ________ measure produces similar results when the same individuals are measured under identical conditions.

Two observers record similar measurements of behavior for a group of children they are watching.  The researchers have established what kind reliability?

Using letter grades (A, B, C, D, and F) to classify student performance on an exam is an example of measurement on a(n) _______ scale of measurement.

What additional information is obtained by measuring on an ordinal scale compared to a nominal scale?

What additional information is obtained by measuring on an interval scale compared to an ordinal scale?

Counting the number of people who smile at a baby in a stroller as they pass by is an example of a ________ measure.

A strategy for reducing experimenter bias is to _____________.

The behavior observed in a research study may be very different from behavior in normal circumstances because the participants modify their behavior when they know that they are being studied.  This problem is known as _____________.

A researcher is interested in the television viewing preferences for of adolescent boys and selects a group of 25 boys to participate in a research study.  The group of 25 boys is a ______.

Typically, researchers plan to generalize their results to the entire group of individuals defined by their specific interests.  This entire group is called ___________.

The group of individuals from which researchers actually select participants for research studies is called ____________.

Although a research question usually concerns the _________ the actual research participants are selected from the _________.

Dr. Near conducts an experiment on memory using participants above the age of 65.  All people above the age of 65 would make up the __________.

A major goal of research is to ______________ from a small group of participants included in a study to the larger group from which they came.

If the individuals in a sample have characteristics that are noticeably different from the individuals in the population, then the sample is said to be ____________.

When a sample has the same characteristics as the target population, the sample is said to be a(n) _______.

A class consists of 20 girls and 12 boys. The names of all the students in a class are listed on separate pieces of paper.  The teacher places all the boys’ names in one hat, all the girls’ names in another hat and mixes them thoroughly before reaching in to draw out five names from each hat.  The teacher is using ____________.

If each person in a large group has an equal chance of being included in an experiment, then the researcher is using ____________.

The major advantage of a simple random sample is that ____________.

A researcher would like to describe and compare the attitudes of four different ethnic groups of students at a local state college.  To obtain participants for the study, the researcher should probably use _____.

A researcher obtains a sample of 50 research participants by asking for volunteers from an introductory psychology class.  What kind of sampling is the researcher using?

Which of the following sampling techniques is most likely to result in a biased sample?

A researcher would like to select a sample of 50 people so that five different age groups are equally represented in the sample.  Assuming that the researcher does not know the entire list of people in the population, which sampling technique should be used?