Psych Quiz 2 Flashcards
Surveys most likely to indicate that reckless behavior and self control are
1) Positively correlated
2) negatively correlated
3) independent variables
4) dependent variables
2) negatively correlated
Which method offers the most reliable way of assessing whether athletic performance is boosted by caffeine consumption
1) Naturalistic observation
2) survey
3) case study
4) experiment
Experiment
To assess whether sense of humor is affected by sexual stimulation researchers exposed married couples to either sexually stimulating or to sexually non-stimulating movie scenes prior to watching a comedy skit in this research the independent variable consist of
Level of sexual stimulation
Random samples provide ______ estimates of population averages if the samples have small ____
1) Poor standard deviations
2) poor mean
3) good standard deviations
4) good mean
Good standard deviations
Professor Backstrom observed and records the behavior of grocery shoppers as they select items to purchase which type of research is a professor backstrom employing
Survey research
experimentation
case study
naturalistic observation
Naturalistic observation
Peoples physical health and their marital happiness resulting in a negative correlation between two would indicate that
Marital happiness has no casual influence on physical health
higher levels of marital happiness are associated with lower levels of physical health
Poor physical health has a negative impact on marital happiness
Marital unhappiness promotes poor health
higher levels of marital happiness are associated with lower levels of physical health
Researchers are especially likely to use experiments in order to achieve greater accuracy with respects to
explanation
One person in a 10 person group is 10 times older than any of the other members with respect to age it is most likely that the majority of the group members are younger than the groups
Mean
