Ethics Flashcards
Angela is a cognitive psychologist. As a cognitive psychologist she:
Infers mental processes from experimental data
Behaviourists are not comfortable with studying mental events such as thoughts or feelings because:
They cannot be independently verified because they are not directly observable.
Diane is keeping an in-depth record of her conscious awareness, including sensation, images, feelings, and thoughts that she is aware of experiencing. Diane is practising what Wundt would call:
Introspection.
My essay examines the relationship between conscious awareness and unconscious mental forces being analogous to the visible tip of an iceberg and the vast, submerged hulk that lies out of sight beneath the water. This notion best fits with which of the following perspectives?
Psychodynamic
Which of these psychologists opened the first psychology laboratory and is often described as the ‘father of psychology’?
Wilhelm Wundt
Although I ran an elegant study that produced significant differences between groups in my lab, my results don’t actually predict what people do in the real world. My study is very low in:
External validity.
An experiment compares student GPAs between those who eat breakfast and those who don’t. After the experiment, it is found that those who eat breakfast in the cafeteria are also listening to music. Not only do the two groups differ in terms of who has breakfast, but they also differ in terms of who hears the music. Music is a:
Possible confounding variable.
Which of the following is not a weakness of experimental research?
a) Results may not generalise outside the lab
b) Complex phenomena may not be easily controlled in a lab setting
c) Researcher bias may limit appropriate conclusions that can be drawn from the data
d) It is not possible to establish causation
It is not possible to establish causation
A quasi-experimental design:
a) is useful if an experimental design is impractical.
b) takes advantage of natural groups as they exist in nature.
c) both a and b.
d) neither a nor b.
c) both a and b.
is useful if an experimental design is impractical and takes advantage of natural groups as they exist in nature.
A stratified random sample reflects:
a) experimenter bias.
b) the proportion drawn from each population category.
c) the programmatic choice of participants.
d) random selection of participants from each population category.
b) the proportion drawn from each population category.
Ethics in research with animals:
a) is not a problem for psychologists.
b) do not apply to rats and mice.
c) balances the costs to the animal against the benefits to humanity.
d) depends on the good-will of the experimenter.
c) balances the costs to the animal against the benefits to humanity
If I perform some statistics on the data that I have gathered, and those statistics merely summarise the findings, I must have used:
a) inferential statistics.
b) main statistics.
c) descriptive statistics.
d) binomial statistics.
c) descriptive statistics
When it comes to the ethics of animal research, which one of the following is NOT an issue?
a) Some animals are cuter than others
b) Whether animals have rights
c) To what extent humans can use other creatures to solve human problems
d) That animals cannot give informed consent
a) Some animals are cuter than others
Which of the following best states when deception is considered ‘useful’ in a study as implied by the authors of your textbook?
a) When demand characteristics would influence the results of an important study
b) When informed consent would jeopardise the authenticity of the study
c) Both a and b
d) When a study of statistical significance would influence future results
c) Both a and b
Which one of the following conditions must be met in order for deception to be used in an experiment?
Select one:
a) The research is important and cannot be conducted without deception
b) Participants can withdraw from the experiment at any time
c) Experimenters debrief the participants afterwards
d) All of the options listed
d) All of the options listed
