Module 6: Critical Research Issues

Question 1

A document signed by participants affirming that they have been told the basic outlines of the study and are aware of what their participation will involve.

Answer 1

Informed consent

Question 2

Factors that distort how the independent variable affects the dependent variable in an experiment.

Answer 2

Experimental bias

Question 3

A false treatment, such as a pill, “drug,” or other substance, without any significant chemical properties or active ingredient.

Answer 3

Placebo

Question 4

By keeping both the participant and the experimenter who interacts with the participant “blind” to the nature of the drug that is being administered, researchers can more accurately assess the effects of the drug.

Answer 4

Double-blind procedure

Question 5

an experimenter unintentionally trans- mits cues to participants about the way the experimenter expects them to behave. The danger is that those expectations actually cause the expected result to happen— results that otherwise might not have occurred

Answer 5

Experimenter expectations

Question 6

Psychologists who specialize in considering the ways in which the biological structures and functions of the body affect behavior are known as

Answer 6

Behavioral neuroscientists