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Question 1 of 200

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Michele believes her boss is an extremely difficult person. To see if her belief has merit, she asks all of her co-workers who have also had problems with him in the past if they believe the same thing. Michele's conclusion may be erroneous because of what?

Select one of the following:

  • Overconfidence phenomenon

  • Focusing effect

  • Law of small numbers

  • Confirmation bias

Explanation

Question 2 of 200

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Luke really likes the new sports car, but is undecided about whether to spend the money to buy one. He creates a lists of 15 reasons why he likes the car. Is this a good idea?

Select one of the following:

  • No. Listing so many reasons will probably be difficult and can actually make you like it less

  • No. If he really liked the car, he would not need a list.

  • Yes. Trying to generate 25 reasons will show him how much he likes the car

  • Yet. It shows that Luke is really putting a lot of thought

Explanation

Question 3 of 200

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Even after having all of his arguments refuted by his girlfriend, Ryan proclaims that everyone is entitled to their own opinions and he isn't changing his. Ryan is exhibiting which flaw?

Select one of the following:

  • Overconfidence phenomenon

  • Belief perseverance

  • Hindsight bias

  • Better than average effect

Explanation

Question 4 of 200

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Dr X attends a party where several people offer suggestions for things she could study in her search. One person suggest her to study if dogs have different personalities. Although she believes this is a silly idea, Dr X decides to conduct a study to see if it is true. Which characteristic of science is she exemplifying?

Select one of the following:

  • Humilty

  • Open-mindedness

  • Skepticism

  • Replication

Explanation

Question 5 of 200

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When Samantha is told about an article that claims listening to music increases intelligence, she is full of questions. What characteristic of science demonstrate?

Select one of the following:

  • Humilty

  • Skepticism

  • Objectivity

  • Testability

Explanation

Question 6 of 200

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The defining characteristic of empirical reasoning is that we use________ in order to evaluate our ideas.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Systematic observations

  • Introspection

  • Reliable anecdores

  • Replication

Explanation

Question 7 of 200

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Tom is investigagting how different strategies for reducing anxiety can improve test performance, while Jerry is studying the impact of stress on memory recall. Tom's research would be considered _______, whereas Jerry's _________

Select one of the following:

  • pseudoscientific; scientific

  • objective; empirical

  • applied; basic

  • empirical; scientific

Explanation

Question 8 of 200

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The president of your company has asked you to evaluate a proposal to buy a rival business. The president gives you the proposal, which includes past and projected sales of the company. Which of the following research skills do think will be least helpful in this task?

Select one of the following:

  • Analytical

  • Ability to interpret numerical information

  • Critical thinking

  • Problem-solving skills

Explanation

Question 9 of 200

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Santiago is applying to be a resident assistant. He believes his leadership abilities are above those of typical applicants. Yet, when asked during his interview to provide examples of times he was a good leader, he cannot think of any. Which of the follow explains why he struggled to answer the questions?

Select one of the following:

  • Better than average effect

  • Overconfidence phenomenon

  • Hindsight bias

  • Belief perseverance

Explanation

Question 10 of 200

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In a questionnaire, you discover you are an extravert. You then learn that extraverts are enthusastic, talkative, and assertive. You immediately question that research because you remember several times in the past when you were not at all assertive. What has most likely led your conclusion?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Relying on truthiness

  • Relying on self-reflection

  • Relying on scientific reasoning

  • Relying on anecdotal versus scientific evidence

Explanation

Question 11 of 200

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When something happens that is the exception to the rule or distinct from the majority of other cases, it is called

Select one of the following:

  • an outlier

  • the law of small numbers

  • error

  • the false uniqueness effect

Explanation

Question 12 of 200

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Tia wants to determine what people find offensive. She thinks about times that other people have offended her and concludes that what is offensive to her is probably offensive to most people. In this circumstance she is using which of the following to reach her conclusion about others?

Select one of the following:

  • Introspection

  • Focusing effect

  • Hindsight bias

  • The law of small numbers

Explanation

Question 13 of 200

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Which of the following is based on casual observations rather than rigorous or scientific analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Skepticism

  • Anecdotes

  • Humility

  • Focusing effect

Explanation

Question 14 of 200

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A car salesperson tells Rudy that a particular model of car is the safest in its class. Rudy does not accept such claims at face value and demands to see the latest safety report. What characteristic of science is Rudy displaying?

Select one of the following:

  • Skepticism

  • Open-mindeness

  • Objectivity

  • Creativity

Explanation

Question 15 of 200

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A psychologist is interested in studying memory in the context of eyewitness testimony. What type of research is this?

Select one of the following:

  • Experimental

  • Nonexperimental

  • Basic

  • Applied

Explanation

Question 16 of 200

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You have just taken a job as a peer tutor. You notice that many of the students believe that they are doing better than other students in the course and that they will have no problem at all catching up. Which two flawas in thinking are these students expressing?

Select one of the following:

  • Overconfidence; hindsight bias

  • Better than average effect; overconfidence

  • Hindsight bias; overconfidence

  • Better than average effect; confirmation bias

Explanation

Question 17 of 200

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After graduate school, you begin your career as a counselor for clients who have an eating disorder. You want to be sure to provide your clients with the best possible treatment, but are unsure wheter treatment a or b is better. To test this, you collect data that will allow you to compare the two treatment types. Which type of skills will be most important for determining the superior treatment?

Select one of the following:

  • Analytical skills

  • Communidcation skills

  • Critical thinking skills

  • Problem solving skills

Explanation

Question 18 of 200

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Replication within the research community leads to:

Select one of the following:

  • competition

  • animosity

  • confidence

  • doubt

Explanation

Question 19 of 200

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Basic research is research:

Select one of the following:

  • A. that uses minimal design or materials to explore a phenomenon.

  • B. designed to help people by improving their quality of life.

  • C. focused on solving a problem.

  • D. dedicated to expanding the existing knowledge on a topic.

Explanation

Question 20 of 200

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Of the following industries, which has the largest number of full-time employees with a psychology major?

Select one of the following:

  • A. public administration

  • B. health services

  • C. financial services

  • D. education

Explanation

Question 21 of 200

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According to the _____, the there is a tendency for more extreme outcomes to occur when considering a small sample as compared to a large sample.

Select one of the following:

  • A. law of large numbers

  • B. law of odd numbers

  • C. law of small numbers

  • D. law of even numbers

Explanation

Question 22 of 200

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The law of small numbers states:

Select one of the following:

  • A. as a sample grows, its average will get further away from the average of the population.

  • B. as a sample grows, its average will get closer to the average of the entire population.

  • C. extreme outcomes are more likely when considering a small number of cases.

  • D. extreme outcomes are less likely when considering a small number of cases.

Explanation

Question 23 of 200

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Galileo once said, “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” This is best representative of the:

Select one of the following:

  • A. “what you see is all there is” phenomenon.

  • B. confirmation bias.

  • C. hindsight bias.

  • D. representativeness heuristic.

Explanation

Question 24 of 200

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Which of the following is the reason that good leaders often employ someone to play the role of devil's advocate before making an important decision?

Select one of the following:

  • A. confirmation bias

  • B. belief perseverance

  • C. “what you see is all there is” bias

  • D. hindsight bias

Explanation

Question 25 of 200

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Which of the following means a willingness to test ideas using the scientific method to draw conclusions?

Select one of the following:

  • creativity

  • skepticism

  • open-mindedness

  • empiricism

Explanation

Question 26 of 200

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Which of the following would be a creative approach to measuring aggression?

Select one of the following:

  • A. using a self-report measure of participants' average level of felt aggression

  • B. allowing participants to use air horns to blast sound at confederates believed to have given them negative feedback

  • C. using informant reports of participants' aggression on a daily basis

  • D. videotaping participants as they discussed a recent aggressive encounter

Explanation

Question 27 of 200

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You know that people are often more generous when donating to a cause after seeing a moving photograph than hearing impersonal statistics. In this case, research on the _____ confirms that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Select one of the following:

  • A. hindsight bias

  • B. availability heuristic

  • C. better-than-average effect

  • D. representativeness heuristic

Explanation

Question 28 of 200

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Imagine that you are a fundraiser for the Susan G. Koman cancer foundation. When planning for an upcoming speech you remember the availability heuristic and decide to devote the majority of time to a _____ rather than _____.

Select one of the following:

  • A. moving testimonial from a cancer survivor; pictures of cancer survivors

  • B. charts and statistics about cancer risks factors; pictures of cancer survivors

  • C. moving testimonial from a cancer survivor; charts and statistics about cancer risks factors

  • D. charts and statistics about cancer risks factors; moving testimonial from a cancer survivor

Explanation

Question 29 of 200

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_____ is a bias in which people only look for evidence that agrees with what they already believe to be true.

Select one of the following:

  • A. Confirmation bias

  • B. Belief perseverance

  • C. Hindsight bias

  • D. “What you see is all there is” bias

Explanation

Question 30 of 200

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The “what you see is all there is” phenomenon is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. the tendency to look for evidence that confirms what we already believe.

  • B. a sense that one “knew it all along.”

  • C. the tendency to be overly confident in the correctness of one's judgments.

  • D. a failure to see the limitations of one's immediate experience.

Explanation

Question 31 of 200

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The _____ skeptical one is, the _____ likely they are to believe pseudoscience claims.

Select one of the following:

  • more, more

  • more, less

  • less, less

  • less, more

Explanation

Question 32 of 200

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Juries may be more lenient when determining the innocence or guilt of individuals who appear attractive, sharply dressed, and well-mannered, because of the:

Select one of the following:

  • A. availability heuristic.

  • B. representativeness heuristic.

  • C. confirmation bias.

  • D. better-than-average effect.

Explanation

Question 33 of 200

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People are more likely to generate “yeah, but” examples for research claims that _____ their personal experience.

Select one of the following:

  • are in line with

  • are unrelated to

  • support

  • contradict

Explanation

Question 34 of 200

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A case that is the exception to the rule would be known as the:

Select one of the following:

  • mean

  • outlier

  • average

  • norm

Explanation

Question 35 of 200

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Which of the following is NOT an example of the better-than-average effect?

Select one of the following:

  • A. Most people think they are smarter than others.

  • B. Most people think they drive better than others.

  • C. Most people think they are angrier than others.

  • D. Most people think they are funnier than others.

Explanation

Question 36 of 200

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An outlier is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. a case that is distinct from the majority of other cases.

  • B. an example of the availability heuristic.

  • C. an example of the representativeness heuristic.

  • D. a case that is similar to the majority of other cases.

Explanation

Question 37 of 200

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_____ is most likely responsible for endorsement of the better-than-average effect.

Select one of the following:

  • A. Hindsight bias

  • B. The representativeness heuristic

  • C. The availability heuristic

  • D. The overconfidence phenomenon

Explanation

Question 38 of 200

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Lili is developing a research question for the study she is conducting this semester. She sttles on, What is the meaning of life? The primary reason that the scientif method cannot be used to answer this question is

Select one of the following:

  • it is not very interesting to most people

  • direct observation would be difficult

  • a quick search in google indicates over 1000 entries on this topic already

  • there are no peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic

Explanation

Question 39 of 200

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The key distinction between scientific and nonscientific questions is whether or not

Select one of the following:

  • the question can be empirically tested

  • others have published articles on the topic

  • the question is of inherent interest to the researcher

  • the question concerns a real-world phenomenon

Explanation

Question 40 of 200

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Who are the peers in the peer-review process?

Select one of the following:

  • Scientists in general

  • People who read the journal articles

  • The publishers of the journal articles

  • Experts in the field

Explanation

Question 41 of 200

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good hypothesis?

Select one of the following:

  • Vagueness

  • Correspondence to reality

  • Falsiability

  • Parsimony

Explanation

Question 42 of 200

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Which of the followig characteristics of good hypotheses is important for minimizing our natural flaws in thinking?

Select one of the following:

  • Specificity

  • Correspondece to reality

  • Falsiability

  • Parsimony

Explanation

Question 43 of 200

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A marker researcher collects reactions to a new cookie before it hits the marketplace. The researcher tells some participants the cookie is low in calories, while othes don't receive this information. next, each participants each 3 cookies and then completes a questionaire. What is the independent variable?

Select one of the following:

  • The participants

  • The number of cookies eaten

  • The type of information provided about the cookie

  • The opinions of the participants

Explanation

Question 44 of 200

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A teacher has some of her students learn the words using a studying strategy she read about in a jorunal. She has the rest using the traditional approach. The teacher then administers the vocabulary test and compare the results. What type of research?

Select one of the following:

  • Longitudinal

  • Within subjects

  • Nonexperimental

  • Between-subjects

Explanation

Question 45 of 200

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Which of the following is probably not very effective in helping the results contribute to the scientific knowledge of psychology?

Select one of the following:

  • Writing an APA style paper for your psychology class

  • Submitting a paper to a peer-reviewed journal

  • Giving a paper presentation at a national research conference

  • Presenting a research poster at a local research conference

Explanation

Question 46 of 200

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Which of the following questions is outside of the scope of science?

Select one of the following:

  • How do parents influence their children's confidence levels?

  • What is love?

  • What do dreams tell us about a person?

  • Are our lives predestined or predetermined?

Explanation

Question 47 of 200

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Billy Ray is having a problem with weeds in his vegetable garden. He wants to determine the best way to control the weeds, but wants to approach it empirically. Which of the following is the best example of an empirical approach?

Select one of the following:

  • He could go to the local home improvement store and buy whatever is most expensive because if it is expensive, it must be good

  • He could ask his neighbor what works best in her garden

  • He could try out several different solutions one by one to see what works best for him

  • He could simply go out and pick the weeds by hand.

Explanation

Question 48 of 200

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Dyala is planning her thesis and needs to generate a hypothesis. Because most people seem to think facebook is bad for college students, she decides to study how the use of fb can help students' transition to college. Which of the following strategies did dyala use to generate her hypothesis?

Select one of the following:

  • introspection

  • find the exception

  • a matter of degree

  • change the directionality

Explanation

Question 49 of 200

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While surffing the internet, you come across a personality test that can determine your personality based on a combination of your favorite color, your favorite food and your favorite hobby. Upon taking the test, you are impressed by how accurate it is. Which of the following likely explains the test's accuracy?

Select one of the following:

  • Correspondence with reality

  • Occam's razor

  • Falsifiability

  • Barnum effect

Explanation

Question 50 of 200

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The owner of a coffehouse wants to know if her customers will drink more coffe depending on the smell of the room. To test this, she hires a psychologist who sets up three similar rooms, each with its own smell then arranges to have thirty students spend an afternoon in each room while being allowed to drink all the coffe they like. The amount each participant drinks is recorded for each of the three scents. What is the dependent variable?

Select one of the following:

  • Amount of coffe consumed

  • Coffe, cinammon buns, bacon and eggs

  • Room scent

  • Time spent in each room

Explanation

Question 51 of 200

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Andrea and Ben are doing a study to see if puppies and sunshine make people happy. To test this, they randomly assign 500 male and female participants to one of the following conditions: exposure to puppies and sunshine or no exposure to puppies and sunshine. Both conditions take place out on the college's quad. Participants complete measure of life satisfaction and general happiness. What is the IV?

Select one of the following:

  • Sitting out on the quad

  • Life satisfaction

  • Happiness

  • Puppies and sunshine

Explanation

Question 52 of 200

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In a study of first college students, 56 men and 88 women examined the influence of relaxation techniques on relieving anxiety associated with starting college. All students received a pamphlet containing information about good sleep habits. Next, half of the participants were taught a breathing exercise while the other half did nothing. What is the constant?

Select one of the following:

  • The sleep-habit pamphlet

  • The breathing exercise

  • Relaxation techniques

  • Anxiety

Explanation

Question 53 of 200

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In an experimental design, the researcher manipulates the _____ and measures the _____

Select one of the following:

  • criterion variable; predictor variable

  • dependent variable; independent variable

  • independent variable; dependent variable

  • experimental variable; nonexperimental variable

Explanation

Question 54 of 200

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You see a video on the web where a prominent bunisesswoman explains that her experience in a specialized kindergarten class that focused on creativity and individuality is the reason for her success. You decide to test this by following a group of children from age 5 until age 25 to see if their educational experiences correspond with their career sucess. What type of design would be the best way to study this?

Select one of the following:

  • Experimental

  • Longitudinal

  • Between subjects

  • Cross-sectional

Explanation

Question 55 of 200

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A psychologist was hired by a local winery to conduct a taste test of four new wines. For the taste test, the psychologist had 100 participants come into the lab, take a small sip of each wine, and rate the taste on several characteristics. Between each wine, participants ate a small cracker. What type of design did the psychologist use?

Select one of the following:

  • Nonexperimental

  • Longitudinal

  • Between subjects

  • Within subjects

Explanation

Question 56 of 200

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Each of the following is a part of the informed consent EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • A. anticipated benefits.

  • B. potential risks.

  • C. agreement to participate.

  • D. detail of all deception used in the study.

Explanation

Question 57 of 200

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In an experiment designed to assess whether weight loss causes increased self-esteem, an acceptable operational definition for the dependent variable would be:

Select one of the following:

  • A. how much weight in pounds participants lost.

  • B. objective raters' evaluations of the participants' confidence.

  • C. objective raters' evaluations of the participants' weight loss.

  • D. participants' self-reported levels of esteem.

Explanation

Question 58 of 200

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Which step in the research process is akin to a “fact-checker”?

Select one of the following:

  • draw conclusions

  • recruit participants

  • peer review

  • analyze data

Explanation

Question 59 of 200

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A longitudinal study uses a(n) _____ design.

Select one of the following:

  • experimental

  • within subjects

  • nonexperimental

  • between subjects

Explanation

Question 60 of 200

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Which approach for generating a hypothesis would ask, “What would I do?”

Select one of the following:

  • A. introspection

  • B. change the directionality

  • C. find the exception to the rule

  • D. think about variables in terms of amount or degrees

Explanation

Question 61 of 200

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Ali is a graduate student who is designing a study to examine the impact of weather on mood. Which of the following would be an appropriate operational definition of her dependent variable?

Select one of the following:

  • A. participants' ratings on a self-report mood scale

  • B. a background measure of how happy participants are prior to participation

  • C. number of rainy days compared with number of sunny days across the study period

  • D. average daily temperature measured in Fahrenheit

Explanation

Question 62 of 200

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Statistics are necessary because:

Select one of the following:

  • A. qualitative research is not scientific.

  • B. accurately detecting patterns in data is easy.

  • C. they help scientists to overcome biases in human processing.

  • D. they enhance the likelihood of making errors.

Explanation

Question 63 of 200

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Surveys and interviews are examples of:

Select one of the following:

  • within subjects

  • between subjects

  • nonexperimental

  • experimental

Explanation

Question 64 of 200

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Where would someone look to find the most cutting edge empirical findings?

Select one of the following:

  • infomercials

  • academic journal

  • research conference

  • book

Explanation

Question 65 of 200

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Statistical tests provide researchers with:

Select one of the following:

  • A. probabilistic conclusions about the relationship between variables.

  • B. universal truths.

  • C. absolute certainty.

  • D. unreliable conclusions about the relationship between variables.

Explanation

Question 66 of 200

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Savannah is a psychologist interested in finding empirically verified information to guide the development of her research hypothesis. Which of the following should she use?

Select one of the following:

  • A. personal websites and blogs

  • B. an Internet search engine

  • C. peer-reviewed journal articles

  • D. nonfiction books

Explanation

Question 67 of 200

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Sunny is interested in testing the hypothesis that accidents are a matter of repressed desires. To test this, she asks participants about recent accidents and their corresponding causes. Just as she suspected, her participants are unaware of the connection between their accidents and unconscious desires. She interprets her findings as support for her hypothesis that people are unaware that their own desires are causing their accidents. What is wrong with her research

Select one of the following:

  • A. Sunny does not use a longitudinal design.

  • B. There is no criterion variable in her study.

  • C. Sunny's hypothesis cannot be disproved.

  • D. Sunny does not adequately manipulate the independent variable.

Explanation

Question 68 of 200

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Lucy believes that halogen light bulbs lead to better visual acuity than incandescent light bulbs. How would she operationally define the independent variable in her study?

Select one of the following:

  • A. self-report of visual acuity

  • B. participants' natural eyesight

  • C. behavioral measure of participants' visual acuity

  • D. type of light bulb

Explanation

Question 69 of 200

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How does a researcher know if he/she has picked a good research question?

Select one of the following:

  • A. Others are also investigating the same phenomenon.

  • B. It interests him/her.

  • C. No one is investigating that topic.

  • D. It is culturally relevant.

Explanation

Question 70 of 200

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When is the ethical review of a study by the IRB conducted?

Select one of the following:

  • after data collection

  • before data collection

  • after data analysis

  • during data analysis

Explanation

Question 71 of 200

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In an experiment there are always different levels of the:

Select one of the following:

  • DV

  • predictor variable

  • IV

  • criterion variable

Explanation

Question 72 of 200

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A _____ is an element that the experimenter expects to change, vary, or that can have several different values, whereas a _____ is a factor that does not change and remains consistent.

Select one of the following:

  • constant; variable

  • variable; level

  • constant; script

  • variable; constant

Explanation

Question 73 of 200

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Between-subjects design is to within-subject design as:

Select one of the following:

  • A. subjective is to objective.

  • B. independent is to dependent.

  • C. difficult is to simple.

  • D. single is to multiple.

Explanation

Question 74 of 200

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Why might a researcher consider it easier to publish a book than a journal article?

Select one of the following:

  • A. research articles are not peer-reviewed

  • B. books are not peer-reviewed

  • C. books are shorter

  • D. research articles are subjective

Explanation

Question 75 of 200

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To create statistics. researchers need to transform information into:

Select one of the following:

  • letters

  • numbers

  • words

  • scripts

Explanation

Question 76 of 200

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Which of the following would most likely represent an ethical dilemma for a person?

Select one of the following:

  • Obeying the speed limit

  • Determining whether to tell on your manager at work for stealing from the register

  • Deciding whether to adhere to your woekplace's dresss code

  • Cheating on your income taxes

Explanation

Question 77 of 200

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As a financially challenged college student, you see a flyer on campus about a research study on the impact of sunburns. The advertisement says you will be paid 500 to have a 1 inch by 1 inch square of skin on your forearm severely burned with ultraviolet light. You know that sunburns can have long term consequences. However, you desperetely need the money, so you seriously consider participating. What ethical line has this research study violated?

Select one of the following:

  • The defilement of justice

  • The failure to determine assent

  • The coercion of voluntary participation

  • The failure to provide informed consent

Explanation

Question 78 of 200

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Cyrus is reading an article and believes that he cannot say something better than the researcher already has. However, his professor said students could not use quotes in their APA style introductions. iNSTEAD OF USING QUOTES, cYRUS takes the researcher's sentence and changes one word of it by replacing the word with a synonim. Which of the following is true?

Select one of the following:

  • Because one word is changed, this is not a case of plagiarism

  • As long as Cyrus cites the researcher, this is not a case of plagiarism

  • The only way for this to not be plagiarism is for him to paraphrase instead

  • The only way for this to not be a cse of plagiarism is for Cyrus to replace at least 2 words with a synonim.

Explanation

Question 79 of 200

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If a psychologist studies learning in pigeons, which of the following oversight groups would ethically approve the research?

Select one of the following:

  • IRB

  • IACUC

  • PEC

  • PETA

Explanation

Question 80 of 200

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Some participants overhear another participant, who is actually a confederate, say something negative about them. Whith ethical principle should Chauncey be most cocnerned about?

Select one of the following:

  • Beneficence

  • Justice

  • Respect for persons

  • Privacy

Explanation

Question 81 of 200

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Deidra needs just one more participant to complete her data colelction for her undergraduate thesis. The last participant signs the cosnent form, but halfway through the study, the participant wants to leave. Deidra tells her that she must stay and finish the study, and the participant complies. What ethical principle has Deidra violated?

Select one of the following:

  • Beneficence

  • Justice

  • Respect for person

  • Privacy

Explanation

Question 82 of 200

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If a study you conduct involves the purposeful misleading or misdirection of participants, when and how do you notify participants of the description?

Select one of the following:

  • You explain the nature and necessity of the deception in the debriefing at the end of the study

  • You notify participants of the deception in the consent form before each participant agrees to participate.

  • As long as the participants leave the study happy, you never have to tell them

  • You only tell participants about deception if it involves confederates

Explanation

Question 83 of 200

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Which of the following would most likely represent an ethical dilemma for a person?

Select one of the following:

  • Cheating on an exam

  • Not paying a parking ticket

  • Reporting one's professor to the head of the department for cancelling too many classes due personal reasons

  • Downloading pirated music from the Internet

Explanation

Question 84 of 200

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Marc wants to do a study on the influence of energy drinks on motivation. After conducting a literature search on PsycInfor for published research on this topic, Marc cannot find any research and concludes that this topic has never been studied. However, what else could explain this?

Select one of the following:

  • Nonresponse bias

  • Lack of reliability

  • The use of poor sources

  • File drawer problem

Explanation

Question 85 of 200

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Teagan finishes up her thesis, but finds that her hypothesis was not supported. She looks at the data and finds that if she omits the data from 3 participants, her results work out as she predicted. Which unethical practice has she engaged in?

Select one of the following:

  • Stappeling the data

  • Massaging the data

  • Plagiarism

  • Analysis falsifiability

Explanation

Question 86 of 200

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All of the following are forms of deception except

Select one of the following:

  • false feedback

  • cover story

  • confederates

  • imprecise informed consent

Explanation

Question 87 of 200

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With regard to participants' emotional responses to the research study, the debriefing tells participants that:

Select one of the following:

  • A. they underreacted as a result of the research lab being an unnatural setting.

  • B. their emotional responses were unusual and merit further investigation.

  • C. any feelings they had during the study were natural.

  • D. they overreacted to a hypothetical situation.

Explanation

Question 88 of 200

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In an experiment, the cover story is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. is developed based on information obtained from the literature search.

  • B. a mixture of truth and deception.

  • C. completely true.

  • D. totally false.

Explanation

Question 89 of 200

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The biggest harm caused by participants who behave unethically is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. hurting science through the publication of potentially inaccurate results.

  • B. frustrating other research participants.

  • C. not finding statistically significant results when a variable actually has an effect.

  • D. wasting the researcher’s time and resources.

Explanation

Question 90 of 200

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Which of the following is a cost of NOT conducting research?

Select one of the following:

  • A. psychological harm of the research

  • B. egoism

  • C. loss of confidentiality of participants

  • D. failing to find important information that will improve the human condition

Explanation

Question 91 of 200

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Imagine that you are designing a study to investigate a sensitive topic. Which of the following study designs would cause the most unnecessary harm?

Select one of the following:

  • A. having participants read secondhand accounts of the phenomenon rather than experiencing it themselves

  • B. randomly assigning half of the participants to personally encounter the sensitive phenomenon

  • C. studying the phenomenon in its natural habitat without interfering

  • D. having participants write about a past experience with the phenomenon rather than subjecting them re-experience it for the study

Explanation

Question 92 of 200

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The file drawer problem is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. the nonpublication of research finding that fail to conclusively support research hypotheses.

  • B. when researchers summarize others' ideas in their own words.

  • C. when a researcher exposes the identity of participant.

  • D. representing the work of others as your own.

Explanation

Question 93 of 200

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Nabil is examining whether taking the medicine, Lactaid, will make people more tolerant of lactose in dairy products. In order to do this, he assigns the participants in the control condition to eat dairy, knowing that they will not receive medication to help their digestive systems handle the lactose. In this case, which of the following should be of greatest concern to Nabil?

Select one of the following:

  • A. psychological harm

  • B. economic harm

  • C. legal harm

  • D. physical harm

Explanation

Question 94 of 200

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Margie received a marginally significant finding to her correlational study examining the relationship between wall color and participant mood. When writing up her results for publication she summarizes her efforts to say that certain colors cause better moods and other colors cause worse moods. What ethical violation has Margie committed?

Select one of the following:

  • nonmaleficence

  • omitting data points

  • misrepresenting

  • plagiarism

Explanation

Question 95 of 200

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Scientific integrity is

Select one of the following:

  • A. a commitment to intellectual honesty and adherence to ethical principles in scientific research.

  • B. an ethical principle of research in which a researcher weighs the benefits and risks before conducting a study.

  • C. the tendency to actively promote the welfare of others.

  • D. the physical or psychological harm that occurs as the result of participation in a research study.

Explanation

Question 96 of 200

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Imagine that you are a participant in a research study. Which of the following would you have the right to expect?

Select one of the following:

  • confidentiality

  • anonymity

  • compensation

  • deception

Explanation

Question 97 of 200

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Minimal risk is to expedited review as:

Select one of the following:

  • A. greater than minimal risk is to advanced review.

  • B. greater than minimal risk is to exempt review.

  • C. less than minimal risk is to exempt review.

  • D. less than minimal risk is to full review.

Explanation

Question 98 of 200

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Dr. Lavoy is the chair of her university's IRB committee. She receives a protocol that describes a study on aggression. As part of the planned study, apes will receive electrical shocks until they exhibit some form of aggressive behavior. What is likely her first concern?

Select one of the following:

  • A. that animal research is not governed by the IRB

  • B. that costs and rewards of the study are not divided fairly

  • C. a violation of the principle of respect

  • D. the researcher's failure to maintain scientific integrity

Explanation

Question 99 of 200

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Which of the following ethical principles is the most central to the utilitarian perspective of ethical understanding?

Select one of the following:

  • justice

  • respect

  • integrity

  • beneficience

Explanation

Question 100 of 200

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Malcolm is a researcher who wants to ensure that he protects the confidentiality of his participants. Which of the following would increase the confidentiality of his study?

Select one of the following:

  • A. separating the debriefing forms from the data

  • B. storing the debriefing forms with the data

  • C. storing the signed informed consent forms with the data

  • D. separating the signed informed consent forms from the data

Explanation

Question 101 of 200

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Which of the following is NOT one of the principles outlined in the Belmont Report?

Select one of the following:

  • justice

  • beneficence

  • respect

  • integrity

Explanation

Question 102 of 200

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What is the Belmont Report?

Select one of the following:

  • A. a report that outlines ethical principles to follow when conducting research involving prisoners

  • B. a report that outlines ethical principles to follow when conducting research involving humans

  • C. a report that outlines ethical principles to follow when conducting research involving animals

  • D. a report that outlines ethical principles to follow when conducting research involving children

Explanation

Question 103 of 200

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If a research question requires the researcher to induce stress in participants:

Select one of the following:

  • A. at the end of the study, the researcher must return participants to same or better physical and psychological state.

  • B. the research cannot be conducted.

  • C. it is fine as long as the researcher believes the benefits outweigh the costs.

  • D. researchers must ensure the presence of residual stress after the research study.

Explanation

Question 104 of 200

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Random assignment of participants to conditions help to establish:

Select one of the following:

  • informed cosnent

  • respect

  • justice

  • beneficence

Explanation

Question 105 of 200

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What is plagiarism?

Select one of the following:

  • A. summarizing others' ideas in your own words

  • B. the nonpublication of research finding that fail to conclusively support research hypotheses

  • C. when a researcher exposes the identity of participant

  • D. representing the work of others as your own

Explanation

Question 106 of 200

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Selecting only homeless to participate in a study although we have no real theoretical reason to use the homeless violates which ethical principle?

Select one of the following:

  • Beneficence

  • Nonmaleficence

  • Justice

  • Autonomy

Explanation

Question 107 of 200

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An informed consent should address all of the following except:

Select one of the following:

  • Any foreseeable risks

  • that the participant¡'s participation is voluntary

  • that the participant cannot quit after signing the informed consent

  • that the responses will be confidential

Explanation

Question 108 of 200

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A marriage counselor wants to evaluate the efficacy of a new approach to help couples communicate better. Before this study can be conducted, approval is needed from all of the following groups except:

Select one of the following:

  • the female participants in the study

  • IRB

  • IACUC

  • male participants in the study

Explanation

Question 109 of 200

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If you are a professore, which of the following strategies would be best for ensuring that you are preserving your students' autonomy while recruiting them for a study?

Select one of the following:

  • Offer research participation as one of the options for fulfilling a course requirement

  • Require your students to participate as part of their educational experience

  • Suggest them that they may not do as well in your course if they fail to participate in your study

  • Offer to exempt any students who participate in your study fromt he final exam

Explanation

Question 110 of 200

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To ensure confidentiality, the researcher would do all of the following except:

Select one of the following:

  • Assign code numbers to the data

  • keep the participant's informed consent separate from the data

  • have participants submit completed surveys in a sealed envelope

  • highlighting an individual's responses by name in a conference presentation

Explanation

Question 111 of 200

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A researcher notices that several participants do not appear to be carefully reading the questions on her survey. She decides not to include these participant' data in her study so that she has a better test of her search hypothesis. This behavior is problematic because of its

Select one of the following:

  • unethical treatment of the participants

  • unethical treatment of the data

  • unethical treatment of the results

  • unethical treatment of the findings

Explanation

Question 112 of 200

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A researcher demonstrating scientific integrity would do all of the following except:

Select one of the following:

  • share only significant findings in the write-ups of their studies

  • determine criteria for terminating data collection prior to starting the study

  • properly label the y axis on figures and charts

  • carefully describe findings such that correlation would not imply cause and effect

Explanation

Question 113 of 200

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A journal editor decides to accept for publication only research in which the results are significant. All of the following are potential ethical problems resulting from this decision except

Select one of the following:

  • there is an increased potential for a file-drawer problem

  • researchers may be more likely to alter their data

  • authors are more likely to plagiarize from other statistically significant studies

  • authors may take more liberties in how they present the results to make them appear more impressive

Explanation

Question 114 of 200

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Audrey is interested in whether moving homes a lot as a child influences trust as an adult. She has participants self-identify whether they moved as a child or not and then complete some questionnaires about trust. What type of design is she using?

Select one of the following:

  • Nonexperimental

  • True experimental

  • Quasi experimental

  • Qualitative research

Explanation

Question 115 of 200

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A researcher wants to codnuct a study on college student's conscientiousness and study habits. To measure conscientiousness the researcher examines students' dorm rooms to see how organized the rooms are, bklabla. What type of measure is the researcher using?

Select one of the following:

  • Behavioral traces

  • Self-reports

  • Behavioral observations

  • Behavioral choices

Explanation

Question 116 of 200

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You notice that the participants are agreeing with everything that you ask them on a questionnaire even if the answer they give is unflattering. Which of the following biases may be a potential problem?

Select one of the following:

  • Restrospective bias

  • Participant reactivity

  • Demand characteristics

  • Social desirability

Explanation

Question 117 of 200

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Marcus plans on measuring life stress and splitting participants into two groups: high and low. Lilja plans on manipulating stress by exposing one group to a snake and the other to guinea pig. Marcus' design is a ______ a Lilja's design is a ____

Select one of the following:

  • quasi experiment; quasi experiment

  • true experiment; true experiment

  • true experiment; quasi experiment

  • quasi experiment; true experiment

Explanation

Question 118 of 200

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Corrin works at a clothing store in the mall. After a staff meeting where the employees learn sales are declining, she notices that some days the music in the store is really loud, while other days it is impossible to hear. She decides that the store manager is changing the music to see if it influences sales, and decides to try harder to sell clothes on days the music is loud. What problem does this exemplify?

Select one of the following:

  • social desirability

  • demand characteristics

  • false consensus effect

  • retrospective bias

Explanation

Question 119 of 200

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In high school, Raul was involved in a terrible car accident when his friend fell asleep at the wheel. Despite the fact that Raul was in the hospital for a month in a full-body cast due to a broken back, when talking about the experiene, Raul recalles that time very foundly and says that it wasn't so bad. What problem does this exemplify?

Select one of the following:

  • Social desirability

  • Demand characteristics

  • False cosnensus effect

  • Retrospective bias

Explanation

Question 120 of 200

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Darius wants to measures conscientiousness to determine whether it varies depending on major. He decides to ask to look at each participants calendar and planner. What type of measurement?

Select one of the following:

  • Behavioral trace

  • Behavioral observation

  • Behavioral choice

  • Self-report

Explanation

Question 121 of 200

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Norah wants to videotape her roomate for a a project on sleeping behaviors. However, because Joanne knows she is being videotaped, she has troubled sleeping. Which potential problem represents?

Select one of the following:

  • Participant reactivity

  • Retrospective bias

  • Social desirability

  • Demand characteristics

Explanation

Question 122 of 200

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FELICIA WANTS TO MEASURE THE TRUE number of miles her car gets per gallon of gas. She determines that she gets 25 miles per gallon. During this trip, she had the air conditioned on most of the time. Which of the following may be contributing to the error?

Select one of the following:

  • The amount of gas she purchased

  • How se calculated the miles per gallon

  • The fact that she used the air conditioner

  • The number of miles

Explanation

Question 123 of 200

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____ is a form of systematic error, while ____ is nonsystematic. Of these two, _____ is more problematic.

Select one of the following:

  • Random error, bias, bias

  • Bias, random error, random error

  • Random wrror, bias, random error

  • Bias, random error, bias

Explanation

Question 124 of 200

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_____ is synonymous with accuracy. _____ is synonymous with conssitency

Select one of the following:

  • reliability, validity

  • sensitivity, lack of bias

  • validity, reliability

  • lack of bias, sensitivity

Explanation

Question 125 of 200

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Quinn decides to interview the girls in her residence hall because all of the girls happen to be from very different parts of the country. What type of sampling is using?

Select one of the following:

  • Snowball

  • Convenience

  • Representative

  • Random

Explanation

Question 126 of 200

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Dr X is conducting a study on the effects of marijuana use on memory. Upon posting the study to recruti participants, 100 people sign up within the first 10 minutes. Dr X sample most likely suffers from which issue?

Select one of the following:

  • Response bias

  • Nonresponse bias

  • Volunteer subject problem

  • The college sophomore problem

Explanation

Question 127 of 200

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Which of the following is a quasi-independent variable?

Select one of the following:

  • stress level

  • gender

  • sleep deprivation

  • medication dosage

Explanation

Question 128 of 200

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Estefan wants to determine the presence of an anxiety disorder by revealing a persistently elevated heart rate and unusually high rates of cortisol. In this case, he is using which of the following to diagnose anxiety?

Select one of the following:

  • behavioral observation

  • behavioral choice

  • behavioral trace

  • physiological measures

Explanation

Question 129 of 200

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Researchers want to _____ retrospective bias and _____ demand characteristics.

Select one of the following:

  • maximize, minimize

  • minimize, maximize

  • maximize, maximize

  • minimize, minimize

Explanation

Question 130 of 200

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Which of the following is most true?

Select one of the following:

  • A. Informant data are more accurate than self-report or behavioral data.

  • B. Behavioral data are more accurate than self-report data.

  • C. Self-report data are more accurate than behavioral data.

  • D. Measurements are not perfect regardless of whether they are self-report or behavioral.

Explanation

Question 131 of 200

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On which of the following topics would a researcher most want to use a self-report measure?

Select one of the following:

  • height

  • confidence

  • althleticism

  • heart rate

Explanation

Question 132 of 200

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the floor effect is

Select one of the following:

  • A. when the lower boundary of a measurement tool is set too high, leading most participants to select the highest response.

  • B. when the lower boundary of a measurement tool is set too high, leading most participants to select the lowest response.

  • C. when the upper boundary of a measurement tool is set too high, leading most participants to select the lowest response.

  • D. when the upper boundary of a measurement tool is set too high, leading most participants to select the highest response.

Explanation

Question 133 of 200

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What is a true experiment?

Select one of the following:

  • A. a research design where the researcher manipulates all of the dependent variables

  • B. a research design where the researcher treats variables as if they are independent variables even though the variables cannot be manipulated

  • C. a research design where the researcher manipulates all of the independent variables

  • D. a research design where the researcher treats variables as if they are dependent variables even though the variables cannot be manipulated

Explanation

Question 134 of 200

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A drawback of using behavioral trace is that is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. is often influenced by demand characteristics.

  • B. requires expensive machinery to measure.

  • C. relies on inferences made by the experimenter.

  • D. is subject to social desirability bias.

Explanation

Question 135 of 200

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What is APA style?

Select one of the following:

  • a data collection strategy

  • form of sampling

  • format for writing a research report

  • statistical analysis for experimental designs

Explanation

Question 136 of 200

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To minimize the impact of demand characteristics, an experimenter should:

Select one of the following:

  • A. have participants respond one at a time.

  • B. ensure confidentiality.

  • C. make the real purpose of the study difficult for participants to figure out.

  • D. only use behavioral measures.

Explanation

Question 137 of 200

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Random error is:

Select one of the following:

  • A. the extent to which a research method measures what it is intended to measure.

  • B. unsystematic influence on the true score.

  • C. an outside influence that affects the true score in a consistent way.

  • D. the extent to which a measure will produce the same results each time it is used.

Explanation

Question 138 of 200

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Researchers may fail to use simple random sampling because:

Select one of the following:

  • A. it requires the creation of complex strata.

  • B. they would need access to the entire population.

  • C. it is a nonrandom sample, which limits the ability to draw conclusions from results.

  • D. certain statistical analyses require more sophisticated sampling procedures.

Explanation

Question 139 of 200

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The _____ is the entire group of interest in a research study.

Select one of the following:

  • sample

  • control group

  • quota

  • population

Explanation

Question 140 of 200

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Self report is to behavioral as:

Select one of the following:

  • A. informant is to archives.

  • B. questionnaires are to reaction time.

  • C. reaction time is to focus groups.

  • D. archives are to questionnaires.

Explanation

Question 141 of 200

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Reality television shows demonstrate the potential issue of _____ when observing the behavior of others.

Select one of the following:

  • demand characteristics

  • participant reactivity

  • observer bias

  • behavioral trace

Explanation

Question 142 of 200

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In what section of an APA-style report would researchers interpret their research findings?

Select one of the following:

  • abstract

  • method

  • discussion

  • results

Explanation

Question 143 of 200

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What is a behavioral observation?

Select one of the following:

  • A. a measure that relies on evidence left behind by a participant who is no longer present

  • B. a measure that relies on directly seeing behavior as it occurs

  • C. a measurement technique that directly asks participants how they think or feel

  • D. a design where variables are treated like independent variables even though they are not able to be manipulated

Explanation

Question 144 of 200

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If a researcher is interested in assessing participants' private thoughts, then he would be best served to use:

Select one of the following:

  • archival data

  • self-report measures

  • informant reports

  • behavioral measures

Explanation

Question 145 of 200

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With regard to sampling, what does WEIRD mean?

Select one of the following:

  • A. western, educated, intelligent, rich, and diplomatic

  • B. western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic

  • C. women, eastern, intelligent, rich, and democratic

  • D. women, eastern, industrialized, rich, and diplomatic

Explanation

Question 146 of 200

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How can a researcher minimize the likelihood of social desirability bias in participants' self-report responses?

Select one of the following:

  • A. design the study in accord with the ethical principle of justice

  • B. have participants sign their name to each page of the questionnaire

  • C. ensure confidentiality

  • D. provide adequate compensation for participation

Explanation

Question 147 of 200

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If the speedomerter in your car conssitently shows that you are going more slowly than you actualy are, it has which type of error?

Select one of the following:

  • Random error

  • Nonstandardization error

  • Bias

  • Nonsystematic error

Explanation

Question 148 of 200

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You ask history majors how interesting they find WWI and notice that almost everyone chose either at 6 or 7 on your 7 point measurement scale. Which of the following may be a problem?

Select one of the following:

  • Scorer bias

  • Ceiling effect

  • Systematic error

  • Floor effect

Explanation

Question 149 of 200

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Which of the following measurement problems is beyond your control?

Select one of the following:

  • Measurement sensitivity

  • Observer bias

  • Random error

  • Bias

Explanation

Question 150 of 200

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You are convinced that an exam was unfair because none of the questions even remotely resembled what was taught in the class. In this case, you are questioning the exam's

Select one of the following:

  • reliability

  • reactivity

  • validity

  • sensitivity

Explanation

Question 151 of 200

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A researcher asks participants to complete a personality measure. Two weeks later the researcher asks the same participants to complete the same emasure. Then compares the two scores. What is trying to evaluate?

Select one of the following:

  • Reliability of the measure

  • Validity of the research findings

  • Validity of the measure

  • Sensitivity of the measure

Explanation

Question 152 of 200

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Whenever your choose a measurement tool, you need to first determine if the instrument has acceptable

Select one of the following:

  • reactivity

  • validity

  • nonbias

  • reliability

Explanation

Question 153 of 200

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A researcher notices that mostly males have signed up for his study on changes to reaction times while sky diving. Which of the following may be a problem?

Select one of the following:

  • Volunteer subject problem

  • Nonresponse bias

  • Random sampling has biased the sutdy

  • College sophomores may be overrepresented

Explanation

Question 154 of 200

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Drew wants a representative sample for his study. He indetifies the entire population and subdivides it. He then uses simple random assignment to see which members of the population will be a part of the sample. Drew is using which sampling strategy?

Select one of the following:

  • Convenience

  • Stratified

  • Quota

  • Snowball

Explanation

Question 155 of 200

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For your research methods class you are writing an APA style report. If you are currently discussing the rationale behind your research, your are likely writing which section?

Select one of the following:

  • Abstract

  • Introduction

  • Method

  • Discussion

Explanation

Question 156 of 200

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Jen wants to determine how student's feelings about conservatism or liberralism influence their choice of major. Angelina wants to determine the characteristics of a successful college president. Jen should take a ________ approach, while Angelina should take a _______ approach

Select one of the following:

  • situated analysis, holysitic analysis

  • holistic analysis, situated analisis

  • quantitative, qualitative

  • qualitative, quantitative

Explanation

Question 157 of 200

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Roger is an incoming student who isn't sure what to pick for a major. Rather than just pick something to see if it is a good fit, Roger collects inforamtion on every major and uses what he learns to make a decision. What type of approach?

Select one of the following:

  • Bottom-up

  • Top-down

  • Quantitative

  • Deductive

Explanation

Question 158 of 200

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Juanita is applying for a job at a substance abuse treatment center. Seh has an interview that is more like a casual conversation that focuses on topics as they arise. What type of interview did Juanita most likely have?

Select one of the following:

  • Structured

  • Unstructured

  • Semiregulated

  • Semistructured

Explanation

Question 159 of 200

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Candem is a vegan who is interviewing the owner of a butcher shop about the ethics of the business. Which of the following is the greatest threat to the objectivity?

Select one of the following:

  • Question reactivity

  • Volunteer bias

  • Reflexivity

  • Interviewer bias

Explanation

Question 160 of 200

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All of the following are qualities of a good interviewer except:

Select one of the following:

  • sensitive and tolerant

  • well-prepared

  • organized

  • does not point out inconsistencies in responses

Explanation

Question 161 of 200

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Jayna wants to interview several PTSD patients. During her interview, she wants to ask them about the trauma, their childhood, tehir friendships and their personalitty. Which of the following is the best question order?

Select one of the following:

  • Personality, childhood, friendship, trauma

  • Friendship, childhoold, trauma, personality

  • Childhoo, friendship, personality, trauma

  • Trauma, childhood, personality, friendships

Explanation

Question 162 of 200

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Anita completed an analysis of several celebrity twitters in which she identified a central theme (vanity) that was common across many areas. What type of analysis is this?

Select one of the following:

  • Thematic

  • Content

  • Conversation

  • Grounded theory

Explanation

Question 163 of 200

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Nolan is interested in studying shopping addiction, so he posts an advertisement online soliciting participants on several online retailers' sites. In his interviews, he discovers that his participants are very proud of their addiction. Which is most likely influencing his conclusion?

Select one of the following:

  • Volunteer bias

  • Interviewer bias

  • Response bias

  • Experimenter bias

Explanation

Question 164 of 200

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Tosha is interested in understanding the culture of hooking up. She decides to gather in depth information on a few individuals so she can have a more throrough understanding of their perspectives ande xperiences concerning hooking up. Which of the following research approaches is Tosha using?

Select one of the following:

  • Quantitative

  • Qualitative

  • Bottom up

  • Top down

Explanation

Question 165 of 200

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Shantel believes that her boyfriend is about to propose. She hunts around in his bedroom and finds a receipt from Tiffany's and a note regarding a dinner reservation at a fancy restaurant. Shantel believes this evidence confirms her prediction. Which of the following approaches in Shantel using?q

Select one of the following:

  • Quantitative

  • Qualitative

  • Bottom up

  • Top down

Explanation

Question 166 of 200

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Hugo's research methods professor gives him an assignment to create an interview. As it is his first time serving as an interviewer, he prepares 10 specific questions prior to the interview and asks all his questions in a specific order. What type of interview is creating?

Select one of the following:

  • Structured

  • Unstructured

  • Semistructured

  • Unbiased

Explanation

Question 167 of 200

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Which of the following is part of developing an interview schedule?

Select one of the following:

  • Determining where the interview will take place

  • Rehearsing the questions

  • Deciding the sequencing of the questions

  • Determining the day and time of the interview

Explanation

Question 168 of 200

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Which of the following is a weakness of qualitative designs?

Select one of the following:

  • They focus on obtaining in depth information

  • They involve a small sample

  • They often involve collecting data in naturally occurring settings

  • They are mroe participant defined than researcher defined

Explanation

Question 169 of 200

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As a research project, mACK READS A NUMBER OF CASE FILES FROM ADULTS immigrating to the US. He wants to focus on reasons for immigrating. From the interviews, he generates categories and establishes themes. Which of the following best describes what is doing?

Select one of the following:

  • Conversation analysis

  • Content analysis

  • Grounded theory

  • Systematically coding the data

Explanation

Question 170 of 200

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An itnerview schedule is most like which of the following concepts that was discussed in a previous chapter?

Select one of the following:

  • Establishing validity

  • Protocol

  • Operational definitions

  • Conceptual definitions

Explanation

Question 171 of 200

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Jose is doing a study about stuudent's likelihood to cheat on an online test. He had questions about their demographic characteristics, how often they have cheated in the past, their intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and their grades. Which questions should Jose ask first?

Select one of the following:

  • Grades

  • Past cheating behavior

  • Demographics

  • Motivations

Explanation

Question 172 of 200

1

Rick is interested in examining obituaries from the WWII. He establishes general concepts that frequently occur, and then settles on one that is most common. What type of analysis?

Select one of the following:

  • Grounded theory

  • Conversation

  • Content

  • Thematic

Explanation

Question 173 of 200

1

Stella invites a dozen residents to her office to disccus their lifestyle. Through those conversations, she identifies several small factors that seem to contribute to the problem of obsesity. What type of analysis is Stella doing?

Select one of the following:

  • Holistic analysis

  • Situated analysis

  • Conversation analysis

  • Content analysis

Explanation

Question 174 of 200

1

In a multi-phase study Sue begins by conducting a focus group. She then uses that information to develop a written measure that is administered to a new group of participants. By using different measures to assess the same topic of interest, Sue is using:

Select one of the following:

  • reflexivity

  • mixed methods research

  • triangulation

  • holistic analysis

Explanation

Question 175 of 200

1

Upon completion of data collection Julian will use statistics to look for meaningful relationships between the variables under investigation. In this study Julian is using:

Select one of the following:

  • quantitative

  • nonexperimental

  • mixe ethods

  • qualitative

Explanation

Question 176 of 200

1

The top-down approach is where researchers:

Select one of the following:

  • A. the process of using multiple techniques to assess the same information.

  • B. test preconceptions and previously established theories with collected data.

  • C. use numbers and statistics to objectively examine associations between variables, predict outcomes, and make comparisons.

  • D. develop a theory by exploring a topic using information provided from the participant's direct experiences.

Explanation

Question 177 of 200

1

A quantitative researchers would be most likely to use _____ interviews, whereas qualitative researchers are more likely to use _____ interviews.

Select one of the following:

  • A. unstructured; structured

  • B. structured; semi-structured

  • C. unstructured; semi-structured

  • D. semi-structured; unstructured

Explanation

Question 178 of 200

1

A _____ analysis is where a researcher examines how numerous properties contribute to patterns within the larger and more complex system.

Select one of the following:

  • holistic

  • phenomenological

  • situated

  • triangulated

Explanation

Question 179 of 200

1

As a general rule, interviewers should NOT:

Select one of the following:

  • A. avoid overt reactions.

  • B. avoid eye contact with interviewee.

  • C. remain neutral.

  • D. minimize leading questions.

Explanation

Question 180 of 200

1

Gloria is studying adjustment to parental divorce. During an interview, she asks each of her participants to focus specifically on the moment they learned that their parents were divorcing. Gloria is using:

Select one of the following:

  • reflexivity

  • triangulation

  • phenomenological approach

  • critical incident technique

Explanation

Question 181 of 200

1

Isadore is a developmental psychologist who is interested in studying parent-child interactions. If he does so by going into participants' homes to gather data, he is using a:

Select one of the following:

  • quantitative

  • mixed methods

  • situated

  • holistic

Explanation

Question 182 of 200

1

A(n) _____ is a protocol that includes the questions a researcher plans to ask and the anticipated order of question presentation.

Select one of the following:

  • A. interview schedule

  • B. case study

  • C. critical incident technique

  • D. conversation analysis

Explanation

Question 183 of 200

1

Freud was a proponent of _____, as he believed that a therapist needed an extended amount of time with each client to thoroughly understand the hidden aspects of a patient's unconscious.

Select one of the following:

  • focus groups

  • case studies

  • phenomenological

  • research studies

Explanation

Question 184 of 200

1

How are nonresponse bias and volunteer bias similar?

Select one of the following:

  • A. They are both akin to observer bias but from the standpoint of the participant.

  • B. They are types of interview approaches used in qualitative research.

  • C. They are both biases that result from experimenter error.

  • D. They are selection biases that make the sample different from the population.

Explanation

Question 185 of 200

1

A(n) _____ case study is used when a researcher has a direct interest in a particular unique case, whereas a(n) _____ case study compares multiple cases.

Select one of the following:

  • A. intrinsic; collective

  • B. descriptive; exploratory

  • C. exploratory; intrinsic

  • D. collective; descriptive

Explanation

Question 186 of 200

1

A(n) _____ is a data collection format where several participants gather together to discuss a topic.

Select one of the following:

  • focus group

  • reserach study

  • case study

  • interview

Explanation

Question 187 of 200

1

_____ is a middle ground that includes the strengths, but omits the weaknesses, of both qualitative and quantitative research.

Select one of the following:

  • correlational studies

  • experimental studies

  • mixed methods research

  • bottom up studies

Explanation

Question 188 of 200

1

More detailed is to less detailed as:

Select one of the following:

  • A. quantitative is to qualitative.

  • B. quantitative is to mixed.

  • C. qualitative is to quantitative.

  • D. mixed is to qualitative.

Explanation

Question 189 of 200

1

If a researcher were going to conduct a content analysis on the annual swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, each of the following are major concepts that could be used to organize and summarize the substance, EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • sports

  • bathing suits

  • women

  • recipes

Explanation

Question 190 of 200

1

The type of qualitative research that uses detailed and typically long-term observations or interactions to situate a phenomenon in the proper cultural context of those being studied is called:

Select one of the following:

  • ethnography

  • focus group

  • action research

  • case study

Explanation

Question 191 of 200

1

Which of the following is an interview type?

Select one of the following:

  • bottom up

  • top down

  • mixed methods

  • semi-structured

Explanation

Question 192 of 200

1

The phenomenological approach:

Select one of the following:

  • A. examines how numerous properties contribute to patterns within the larger and more complex system.

  • B. is the process of using multiple techniques to assess the same information.

  • C. examines a topic while it is embedded within its naturally occurring context.

  • D. seeks to understand a human experience and the meaning of experiences based on how those involved view the situation.

Explanation

Question 193 of 200

1

_____ is an interview approach in which the researcher preplans some questions and remains flexible on other questions.

Select one of the following:

  • unstructured

  • semi-structured

  • semi-unstructured

  • structured

Explanation

Question 194 of 200

1

Johan wants to study how the placement of products in a store impacts consumer purchases. He decides to record the position of particular items and the frequency in which they are purchased by watching the security cameras. Which of the following methods?

Select one of the following:

  • Nonconcealed participant observation

  • Concealed participant observation

  • Laboratory observation

  • Naturalistic observation

Explanation

Question 195 of 200

1

To study the aspects of being a fraternity member, Chong joined a pledge class without telling anyone the real reason he wants to be a part of the fraternity. Which method?

Select one of the following:

  • Nonconcealed participant observation

  • Concealed participant observation

  • Concealed laboratory observation

  • Naturalistic observation

Explanation

Question 196 of 200

1

Astrid and Josette are collecting observational data on the impact of window displays on sales. They separately record the length of time a person looks at a display in the window, as well as whether that person purchases the item. To be sure their observations are conssitent, they should do which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Employ the use of only blind observations

  • Use continuous rather than interval recording

  • Examine their study's inter observer reliability

  • Include a contrived observation

Explanation

Question 197 of 200

1

Pariticpants can examine and use any product they see over a 30 minute period. Every 5 minute, researchered records which product the participant is examining or using. What type of recording?

Select one of the following:

  • continuous

  • interval

  • duration

  • frequency-count

Explanation

Question 198 of 200

1

A professor train an undergradute researcher to simply identify and code rude behavior unobtrusively and sends her to a retail store. What type of observation?

Select one of the following:

  • blind

  • participant

  • laboratory

  • contrived

Explanation

Question 199 of 200

1

Grace is interested in determining which food station is most commonly used. What statistic should she use?g

Select one of the following:

  • Mode

  • Median

  • Mean

  • Range

Explanation

Question 200 of 200

1

Sam recorded the number of times each student in his class checked phones during one class meeting. If Sam wanted to know how often the average student check his phone, which form of central tendency?

Select one of the following:

  • Mean

  • Median

  • Mode

  • Range

Explanation

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