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Test Bank For Psychology (High School Edition) Thirteenth Edition by David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall V 2 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter Chapter 1 Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Dr. Marilyn is conducting a research study in hopes of identifying factors that influence the impact of serial migration on children. She is conducting ________ research. a. exploratory b. confirmatory c. correlational d. replication 2. A population can be defined as a. all those in a group being studied. b. a determination of how two factors vary together. c. the needed sample to determine cause-effect relationships. d. a subset of the group being studied. 3. Researchers observe random samples because these samples are likely to be a. easy to observe. b. homogeneous. c. representative. d. easy to debrief. 4. Which of the following characteristics does NOT describe a superforecaster? a. They gather facts. b. They can balance clashing arguments. c. They avoid overconfidence. d. They fall prey to hindsight bias. 5. After he was robbed by a small group of teenagers, Mr. Seymour concluded that most teenagers are irresponsible and delinquent. Mr. Seymour ought to be reminded that accurate generalizations depend on a. a realization that random events may not look random. b. detecting cause-effect relationships. c. the observation of representative samples. d. the selection of samples from a skewed population. 6. Researchers examining people's opinion on same-sex marriage have found that respondents are more likely to support references to "marriage equality" than "gay marriage." This finding demonstrates a. random sampling. Copyright Macmillan Learning. Powered by Cognero.
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