Honors Thesis in Psychology Solved Exam Questions
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The Honors Thesis in Psychology is a capstone research experience designed for advanced undergraduate students seeking to deepen their understanding of psychological science through independent inquiry. Under the supervision of a faculty mentor, students develop, execute, and present an original research project that demonstrates their ability to apply theoretical knowledge and scientific methods to address significant psychological questions. The course emphasizes critical thinking, methodological rigor, data analysis, and scholarly communication, culminating in a comprehensive written thesis and an oral defense or presentation. Completion of the Honors Thesis provides valuable preparation for graduate study and careers in research-intensive fields.
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Research In Psychology Methods and Design 7th Edition by C. James Goodwin
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Chapter 1: Scientific Thinking in Psychology
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Q1) "Ergonomic" psychologists develop airplane dials that are fool proof. That is, pilots cannot inadvertently turn them the wrong way. This demonstrates the use of which of psychology's goals?
A) description
B) explanation
C) prediction
D) application
Answer: D
Q2) With which of the following attributes of scientific thinking is most likely to confuse and frustrate the general public?
A) the desire for objectivity
B) the emphasis of supporting claims with data
C) the recognition that conclusions are tentative
D) the reliance on empirical questions
Answer: C
Q3) Fixing belief by relying on ________ occurs when students fail to question their professors.
Answer: authority
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Chapter 2: Ethics in Psychological Research
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Q1) The most recent APA code (2002) includes 5 general principles and 89 standards. One of the general principles obligates researchers to continually weigh the profit and the cost of the research they complete. Which general principle is this?
A) beneficence and nonmaleficence
B) integrity
C) justice
D) fidelity and responsibility
Answer: A
Q2) At the conclusion of an experimental session, participants should be completely informed about the study's purpose; this postexperimental session is called
Answer: debriefing
Q3) According to the APA's ethics code for humans, those who volunteer for a study
A) can quit at any time, without penalty
B) must be debriefed at the end of the study, if they request it
C) must sign an informed consent form that fully explains all aspects of the study ahead of time, including its complete hypothesis
D) must complete the study, once they begin
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Developing Ideas for Research in Psychology
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Q1) An __________ is someone who is working for the experimenter and is "in on" the experiment, but to the participant, appears to be another participant (or perhaps just a bystander).
Answer: experimental confederate
Q2) A theory can be the starting point for developing a research hypothesis through the logical process of _______.
Answer: deduction
Q3) Which of the following is true about the case of Clever Hans?
A) it was shown to be a case of scientific fraud
B) Pfungst demonstrated that the most parsimonious explanation was that the horse had a higher level of intelligence than other horses
C) Pfungst ruled out intelligence by showing that if the questioner didn't know the answer, thehorse didn't know the answer
D) he only answered correctly when his trainer (von Osten) knew the answer
Answer: C
Q4) A study that duplicates a situation encountered in everyday living is said to have a high level of ________ realism; such a study may or may not have ________ realism.
Answer: mundane; experimental
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Chapter 4: Measurement, Sampling, and Data Analysis
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Q1) In a "Gee whiz" graph,
A) the differences are so obvious that an inferential analysis is not needed
B) the hoped-for differences fail to materialize
C) apparent differences are exaggerated by failing to label the Y-axis appropriately
D) there are too many lines, making it impossible to interpret
Q2) A test is said to be reliable if ___________, and valid if it _____________.
A) its results are repeatable; measures what it is supposed to measure
B) has a sufficiently high amount of measurement error; measures what it is supposed to
C) its results are repeatable; is low in measurement error
D) measures what it is supposed to measure; is low in measurement error
Q3) What information is conveyed in a confidence interval?
Q4) A test might not appear to be a good test of native intelligence and yet it might do a very good job of predicting how well someone does in school. That is, this test
A) has both face validity and predictive validity
B) has criterion validity but not face validity
C) is reliable but not valid
D) has criterion validity but lacks reliability
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Chapter 5: Introduction to Experimental Research
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Q1) In order to determine if some experience brought about a change in an individual from one time to another, researchers often use designs that include
A) pretests and posttests
B) control groups
C) statistics
D) regression
Q2) In general, describe the three essential features of any experimental study in which a causal conclusion can be drawn.
Q3) Conclusions about cause and effect cannot be drawn in studies involving
A) manipulated variables
B) task variables
C) situational variables
D) subject
Q4) Woodworth's so-called "Columbia bible" was the first experimental psychology text to argue for a clear distinction between
A) experimental and control groups
B) manipulated and subject variables
C) experimental and correlational research strategies
D) nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales of measurement
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Chapter 6: Control Problems in Experimental Research
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Q1) Demand characteristics, and therefore subject bias, can be reduced by using A) only good subjects
B) only those participants incapable of figuring out the hypothesis C) deception
D) within-subjects rather than between-subjects designs
Q2) As a technique for creating equivalent groups, when is matching preferred over random assignment?
A) when a large number of subjects are available and can be used
B) when some extraneous variable is known to correlate with the dependent variable
C) whenever a within-subjects design is preferred over a between-subjects design
D) whenever a potential confound exists, but you aren't aware of its presence
Q3) Why does counterbalancing solve progressive order effects better than carry-over effects?
Q4) Compared to a cross-sectional study, a longitudinal study
A) takes less time to complete
B) has to deal with potential cohort effects
C) has attrition as its major difficulty
D) has to be concerned about counterbalancing properly
Q5) All possible orders of conditions are used in ___________ counterbalancing.
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Chapter 7: Experimental Design 1: Single Factor Designs
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Q1) The use of control groups has been criticized on ethical grounds because
A) those in control groups seldom have the opportunity to give informed consent
B) control group participants aren't debriefed
C) control group participants could be missing an effective therapy
D) those in control groups, because they are still waiting for therapy, are more likely to have their privacy violated
Q2) In research that evaluates some new form of psychotherapy, the usual comparison is between
A) the new therapy and no therapy
B) the new therapy and a placebo therapy
C) the new therapy and an already existing therapy
D) those who have never been in therapy before, and those who have lots of therapy experience
Q3) If a t test for dependent samples has been completed in a single factor study, you can be sure that
A) the independent variable has more than two levels
B) the independent variable is a subject variable
C) the independent variable only has two levels
D) a Type I error is more likely than a Type II error
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Chapter 8: Experimental Design II: Factorial Designs
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Q1) A factorial design using both a between-subjects factor and a within-subjects factor is known as a(n) _______ design.
Q2) What is the basic difference between a mixed factorial design and a PxE factorial design?
Q3) This study includes learning style as A) a manipulated variable
B) a subject variable
C) a dependent variable
D) an uncontrolled extraneous variable
Q4) In a 2 (gender) x 2 (type of therapy) factorial design, males were helped by therapy A, but females were helped by therapy B. This describes A) a main effect for gender
B) a main effect for therapy type
C) an interaction between gender and therapy type
D) none of the above
Q5) Use the research example on studying in noisy versus quiet environments to illustrate the concept of an interaction in a factorial design.
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Chapter 9: Correlational Research
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Q1) A researcher administers a number of tests and correlates each test with every other test, placing the results in a(n) __________.
Q2) What is the coefficient of determination and what does it mean?
Q3) Which of the following correlations shows the strongest relationship?
A) -.72
B) +1.21
C) +.70
D) -.09
Q4) The same interpretation problems found in correlational studies also occur in A) experimental studies
B) studies with subject variables
C) mixed factorial studies
D) repeated-measures studies
Q5) If there is a strong relationship between variable A and variable B, it could be that A is causing B to occur, but it could also be that B is causing A to occur. This is known as the
A) directionality problem
B) third variable problem
C) nonlinearity problem
D) range restriction problem
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Chapter 10: Quasi-Experimental Designs Applied Research
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Q1) Applied research
A) examines the basic laws of human behavior
B) is just as likely to occur in the laboratory as in the field
C) focuses on a specific real world problem
D) has no connection with theory
Q2) Experiment is to quasi-experiment as _____ is to _____.
A) internal validity; external validity
B) equivalent groups; nonequivalent groups
C) positive correlation; negative correlation
D) control group; no control group
Q3) Summative evaluations sometimes fail to detect genuine program effects. These Type _____ errors often happen because _______.
A) II; the measuring tools aren't very good
B) II; the program usually doesn't work
C) I; the measuring tools aren't very good
D) I; the program really doesn't work
Q4) Consider Harry and Leta Hollingworth's Coca-Cola study. What important methodological features did they incorporate into their studies, and what were their conclusions about the effects of caffeine?
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Chapter 11: Small N Designs
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Q1) In an A-B-C-B design, what is the "C?"
A) it means that reinforcement is given, but it is not contingent on the target behavior being performed
B) it means that reinforcement is given, and it is made contingent on the target behavior being performed
C) this is the point in a changing criterion design where a change (C) occurs
D) this is an alternating treatment (C is one treatment, B is another, and A is the third type of treatment)
Q2) What does it mean to say that a study fails the "individual-subject validity" test?
A) it means that sample size is too small
B) it means that the individuals in the study do not behave as predicted by the hypothesis
C) it means that the overall conclusion is not reflected in the behavior of individual participants
D) it means that leakage occurred - too many of the individual participants in the study knew the true hypothesis ahead of time
Q3) The method used by Luria to study exceptional memory was the __________ method.
Q4) An A-B-A and an A-B-A-B are both examples of ________ designs.
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Chapter 12: Descriptive Research Methods
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Q1) Demographic information includes
A) how knowledgeable a person is about some topic
B) information about the income level of the respondent
C) someone's opinion about democracy (or related issues)
D) all of the above
Q2) Phone surveys should occupy a relatively brief amount of the respondent's time; this reduces the tendency for phone survey researchers to use ________ questions.
Q3) In the survey of student attitudes toward animal research by Plous, which sampling method was used?
A) cluster
B) simple random
C) convenience
D) stratified
Q4) How is the problem of subject reactivity handled in naturalistic observations of animal behavior?
A) researchers remain completely hidden from the animals
B) researchers assume that animals become accustomed to their presence
C) researchers rely only on unobtrusive measures
D) researchers rely on video recording in zoos
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