Allen County Community College

PSYC 101

1)In an experimental study, a(n)_is manipulated experimental factor that the experimenter changes to see what its effects are.

2. In the context of evaluating theories in psychology,                   replication means doing a study precisely as it was conducted in its original form.
3. In an experimental research study, which of the following groups is an experimental group?
4. The influence of a researcher’s expectations on the outcome of a research study is known as           bias.
5. If a psychologist was to study the emotion of “love,” he/she would need to have                      

love. Without this specific information, the hypothesis could not be tested.

6. The final step in the scientific method of psychology is:
7. In a               , neither the participants nor the experimenter administering the treatment are aware of which participants belong to the experimental group and which are part of the control group.
8. Before agreeing to participate in a psychological research study, all participants must know what their participation will involve & what risks might develop. According to the American Psychological (APA) guidelines, which of the following addresses the issue?
9. A(n)                 is a person who is given a role to play in an experimental study so that the social context can be manipulated.
10. In a double-blind experiment:
11. The placebo effect in an experimental study refers to the:
12.             statistics are the mathematical methods that are used to indicate whether results for a sample are likely to generalize to a population.
13. When psychological researchers use the correlational method to study variables, a correlation coefficient indicates the                                        between two variables

14. In the context of evaluating theories in psychology,                is a method that allows

researchers to combine the results of several studies on a similar topic in order to establish the strength of an effect.

15. In descriptive statistics, range is a measure of:
16. When psychologists conduct a study, a                    sample gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected.
17. In an experimental research study, the group that receives no treatment is called the               

group.

18.             characteristics are any aspects of an experimental research study that communicate to participants how the experimenter wants them to behave.
19. When psychologists conduct a study, the group of participants chosen for the study is referred to as the:
20. A           design is a special kind of systematic observation, used by correlational researchers, that involves obtaining measures of the variables of interest in multiple waves over time.
21. In an experimental study, a properly designed hypothesis will test a theory by predicting the:
22.             is the measure of dispersion that indicates how much scores in a sample vary around the mean of the sample.
23. A              design is a type of correlational study in which variables are measured at a single point in time & then observations from this single measurement are compared.
24. The first step of the scientific method in psychology involves:
25. In the context of ethical guidelines in psychological research, when data are confidential:
26. Researchers’ assignment of participants to groups by chance in order to reduce the likelihood that an experiment’s results will be due to preexisting differences between groups is known as     assignment.

27. In an experimental research study, the control group is the: