Midterm Review Flashcards
Scenario: Shige Oishi (2010) proposed a “residential mobility theory” stating that when people move often, they start to value different kinds of friendships, as compared to people who have not moved very often. For example, people who move often prefer people who are extroverted and easy to get to know. In contrast, people who do not move often prefer people who are loyal and who keep up their long-standing friendships.
Amanda decided to run a new study to test residential mobility theory in the research methods class. First, she asked people how often they had moved in their life and categorized them into two groups: people who had moved more than four times and people who had not moved more than four times. After her experiment, Amanda asked each group whether they would prefer to work in a study group of strangers or close friends. She had predicted that people who had moved a lot would prefer the study group of strangers. However, Amanda’s results revealed no difference.
Scenario
Oishi’s general statement, that moving often will lead people to value different kinds of friendships is an example of which of the following?
a. data
b. a law
c. a theory
d. a hypothesis
e. research
c. a theory
Amanda’s specific expectation, that students who move often will prefer to work with a study group of strangers, is an example of which of the following?
a. data
b. a law
c. a theory
d. a hypothesis
e. research
d. a hypothesis
In a follow-up analysis, if Amanda proposed that people who move often will prefer to work with a study group of strangers because of their high adaptability skills, what type of variable would adaptability skills be considered (e.g., moderator, mediator, confounder)?
Amanda’s hypothesis was not supported by her data because she found that people who had moved often were not more likely to prefer working in a study group of strangers. What does this mean?
a. Amanda may need to determine if her study was designed poorly.
b. The theory may need to be modified.
c. The theory should be rejected.
a. Amanda may need to determine if her study was designed poorly.
b. The theory may need to be modified.
What psycINFO search would give you more responses?
a. “narcissism” or “self-esteem”
b. “narcissism” and “self-esteem”
c. “narcissism”
d. “self-esteem”
a. “narcissism” or “self-esteem”
What information would indicate the IMPACT of an empirical journal article?
the number of articles it was “cited by”
How is an APA-style reference page spaced?
double-spaced
What is the heading for an APA-style reference page?
References
What theory did Harlow’s study of infant attachment support?
the contact-comfort theory
Which feature is most important in our acceptance of a theory, according to the textbook?
a. It is supported by data.
b. It is falsifiablele.
c. It is parsimonious.
d. It is proven.
a. It is supported by data.
A researcher finds that when 40 people take a five-item measure of extroversion, their answers to each of the five items are correlated. This is
a. internal validity
b. test-restest reliability
c. internal reliability
d. interrater reliability
c. internal reliability
A professor gives a class a self-report measure of conscientiousness and finds that people who score high on the measure are more likely to be on time to class. This is evidence for the measure’s
a. test-retest reliability
b. criterion validity
c. face validity
c. face validity
