RM Chapter 6 Quiz

According to the textbook, folk psychology can be defined as:

• Tendency to focus on cases that confirm our intuitive beliefs and to disregard cases that disconfirm our beliefs.

• Mental shortcuts in forming and maintaining our beliefs.

• Intuitive beliefs about people’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings.

• Accepting that there are many things that we simply do not know.

The two ways of demarcating science discussed in class are (select both):

• Science can be observed

• Science can be proven correct

• Science can be disproved, or proven incorrect

• Science relies on intuition and authority

A _____ is a set of proposed ideas to explain a phenomena

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Parsimony

• Method

In a double-blind peer review:

• Both the reviewers and researchers know each others' identity

• The researchers know, but the reviewers don't know, each others' identity

• The reviewers know, but the researchers don't know, each others' identity

• Neither the reviewers nor researchers know each others' identity

A good operational definition is valid, meaning that it:

• Is the simplest explanation

• Measures what we think we're measuring

• Is consistent over time

• Quantifies a psychological construct by administration of a test

The field of psychology concerned with the theories and techniques of psychological measurement is known as:

• Psychotesting

• Psychoinstrumentation

• Psychomeasurements

• Psychometrics

A ________ variable is a variable that causes the two variables that we are researching to be related, and results in spurious correlations

• Manipulated

• Independent

• Dependent

• Third

An experiment design in which the participants are matched on the dependent variable or on some extraneous variable(s) prior to the manipulation of the independent variable is known as a:

• Matched-groups design

• Unmatched-groups design

• Block randomization

• Within-subjects design

Using multiple operational definitions of the same construct—either within a study or across studies—is known as ______.

• converging evidence

• converging operations

• levels of measurement

• conceptual definitions

Pat counts the number of sales his sales team makes in a month. What level of measurement is this?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio