Scientific Inquiry Exam 2

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that is typical of qualitative research?

Mech et al. (2010) used which of the following to obtain data for their paper "Eavesdropping on Happiness?"

Research done on "Genie" (who had limited language development) & H.M. (who had amnesia) tend to involve what sort of research?

Which of the following is an ADVANTAGE of systematic observation?

In which of the following types of study would reactivity be the GREATEST concern?

Which of the following IS a match between a type of survey & a limitation of that type of survey?

Which of the following scales is demonstrated below?

What flaw does the question demonstrate? "Are you not satisfied with your online service provider?"

What flaw does the question demonstrate? "Do you support government-provided health care for children & senior citizens?"

What flaw does the question demonstrate? "Do you believe that Candidate X deserves to be removed from office after the many scandals that he was involved in?

What flaw does the question demonstrate? The "national service" video from the Yes Minister TV show clip in class.

__________ is a low-cost sampling technique that runs the risk of introducing bias, while __________ costs more but is less prone to bias.

Which of the following is MOST clearly a risk of pretest-posttest designs?

In a matched-pairs design:

In which of the following designs is assignment to groups a concern?

Suppose that you are evaluating a smoking cessation program in your community. At the same time, the city puts up anti-smoking advertisements all around the laboratory. This would be an example of which of the following problems?

Suppose that a researcher uses a post-test only design to investigate the effects of a mediation technique on mood. The researcher recruits 40 participants, randomly assigns them to 2 groups. One group receives meditation training before taking a questionnaire on their mood. The other sits in a quiet room for the same length of time before taking the questionnaire. As it happens, the experimental group is in a spacious area for the meditation training, while the control group is in a cramped classroom. The clearest potential problem with this design is:

What is the purpose of a Latin Square design?

Which of the following describes a procedure that counterbalances for order?

Which of the following is NOT involved in a staged manipulation? (Choose the best answer)

Identify the dependent & independent variable. Compared to children, adults are bad at learning language. This is counterintuitive; adults outperform children on most measure of cognition, especially those that involve effort (which continue to mature into early adulthood). The present study asks whether these mature effortful abilities interfere with language learning in adults & further, whether interference occurs equally for aspects of language that adults are good (word-segmentation) versus bad (Grammar) at learning. Learners were exposed to an artificial language comprised of statistically defined words that belong to phonologically defined categories (grammar). Exposure occurred under passive or effortful conditions. Passive learners were told to listen while effortful learners were instructed to try to 1) learn the words, 2) learn the categories, or 3) learn the category order. Effortful learners showed an advantage for learning words while passive learners showed an advantage for learning the categories. Effort can therefore hurt the learning of categories. Q: A dependent variable in this study is:

Consider the following paragraph from the Method section of the paper on page 3. After exposure, participants completed 2 forced choice tests: (1) a word-level test in which they were asked which of two words was more likely to belong in the language they just listened to, and (2) a sentence-level test in which they were asked which sentence was more likely to belong in the test were randomized separately for each subject. In these 2 tests, there were 3 types of interest: word segmentation, order & category structure. All word segmentation items occurred in the first, word-level, test and all of the order & category structure occurred in the second, sentence-level test. Q: Which of the following best describes the design of this study?

Consider the following paragraph from the Method section of the paper on page 3. After exposure, participants completed 2 forced choice tests: (1) a word-level test in which they were asked which of two words was more likely to belong in the language they just listened to, and (2) a sentence-level test in which they were asked which sentence was more likely to belong in the test were randomized separately for each subject. In these 2 tests, there were 3 types of interest: word segmentation, order & category structure. All word segmentation items occurred in the first, word-level, test and all of the order & category structure occurred in the second, sentence-level test. Q: If the word-level test was always carried out first, this could potentially lead to:

The Solomon four-group design is a compromise between which types of design?

Which of the following is most clearly a way to overcome a floor effect?

The double-bind design reduces the likelihood of:

Early studies of childhood development by Jean Piaget underestimated the rate of development because participants could not express that they knew or understood something. Which of the following best describes the problem with Piaget's studies?

Which of the following is an example of a pilot study (based on the definition of the term from class?)

Which of the following is NOT a typical role of debriefing in experimental research

According to the text, which of the following is the final step in conducting research?

Filler questions in some psycholinguistics studies serve to:

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Which of the following would most likely be a PV in a PV x IV design?

Which of the following is a correct description of the graph shown on the right? Assume that differences between conditions reflect differences in the population.

Suppose that the owner of a coffeeshop introduces a promotion where they offer a coupon for discounts on a movie ticket with every cup of coffee. The owner runs the promotion for one month in May. The shop sold 1000 cups of coffee per day in April, 1250 cups of coffee per day in June. The owner interprets this as a sign that the promotion was effective. This procedure is most similar to the:

Which of the following points did Kathryn Shultz make about how it feels to be wrong?

Bonus: In class, I described an experiment that I conducted which had a 2x2x2x3x3 factorial design. What was the result of this experiment?

Which of the following best describes what to do when you find significant main effects & significant interactions in a 2x2 factorial design?

Which of the following is NOT a plausible rationale for using a quasi-experimental design instead of a conventional experimental design?

In the sequential method, you would collect data from:

The purpose of propensity score matching is to deal with potential confound introduced by:

Which of the following is an example of a situation where regression to the mean could MOST plausibly provide an alternative explanation for my result?