RM Chapter 5

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.

Pat performs research to understand how a phenomenon works, without any concern towards how this phenomenon might treat mental health disorders. Pat is engaging in:

• Basic research

• Applied research

An interesting research question is one that does all of the following, EXCEPT:

• It tells us something about theory

• It hasn't been asked before

• It fills a gap in the literature

• It has practical implications

A _____ describes the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables

• Correlation coefficient

• Mode

• Median

• Standard deviation

______ allow us to infer a person’s level on a construct by obtaining a sample of behavior

• Operational definitions

• Validities

• Reliabilities

• Tests

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

Theories that make the fewest assumptions are most likely to be true, which is known as:

• Hypotheses

• Parsimony

• Falsifiability

• Empiricism

One pro of using between-subjects design is that participants only see one condition, so that participants aren't affected by earlier conditions, which is known as:

• Carryover effects

• Demand characteristics

• Block randomization

• Matched-groups design

In correlational studies, variables are sometimes seen to be related but only because of a variable we didn't account for known as a:

• dependent variable

• third variable

• operational variable

• independent variable