Methods and Approaches Subcategories

Methods and Approaches

Dr. Saeed worth in interested in people’s reactions to a controversial jury verdict. Dr. Saeed worth calls people at their home between the hour of 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon. In this example Dr. Saeed worth has most likely selected:

A. a biased population
B. a biased sample
C. a representative sample
D. a statistically significant population

Associated with conceptual enquiry style are curriculum development, ____________, innovation strategies and the use of techniques from other disciplines.

A. Educational evaluation
B. Educational philosophy
C. Educational technology
D. Educational psychology

Our tendency to notice and remember instance in which a premonition of an unlikely phone call is actually followed by the call most clearly contribute to:

A. the placebo effect
B. the false consensus effect
C. replication
D. an illusory correlation

Men judge women as especially attractive if:

A. they appear dominant, and women judge men as especially attractive if they appear submissive
B. they appear mature, and women judge men as especially attractive if they appear mature
C. they appear youthful, and women judge men as especially attractive if they appear youthful
D. they appear youthful, and women judge men, as especially attractive if they appear mature

The report is a result of subjective filtering by the researcher based on his bias or by using an advocate and an adversary approach, leaving the reader to make a:

A. Base
B. Point
C. Decision
D. Result

In the control condition of an experiment the:

A. research participants are exposed to the most favorable levels of experimental treatment
B. dependent variable is not measured
C. experimental treatment is absent
D. experimenter exerts the greatest influence on participants behavior

The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as:

A. structuralism
B. functionalism
C. natural selection
D. behavior genetics

Certain____________would come into conceptual enquiry category, in these on attempt is made to quantify data:

A. Observation models
B. Observation schedules
C. Observation steps
D. Observation data

In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:

A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment

Dr. Saleem conducts basic research on the relationship between adults’ language Skills and their capacity to solve mathematical problems. Dr. Saleem is most likely a(n)_______________ psychologist.

A. industrial / organizational
B. social
C. clinical
D. cognitive