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. Which of the following questions is best investigated by means of a survey?

• Is IQ related to grades?

• Does extra sleep improve memory?

• What is the best study technique for AP tests?

• Are students more likely to be politically liberal or conservative?

 A researcher looking for gender differences in 3-year- olds observes a preschool class and records how many minutes children of each gender play with dolls. She then compares the two sets of numbers. What type of descriptive research is she conducting?

• Case Study

• National Study

• Random Sample Method

• Naturalistic Obervation

A person displays a set of rare behaviors that psychologists had not known about previously, because nobody had ever shown them before. The best strategy to investigate the nature of those behaviors is

• Survey

• Interview

• Case Study

• Correlation Method

 Which of the following is most important when conducting survey research?

• Choosing a representative sample

• Choosing a large sample

• Choosing a biased sample

• Choosing a sample whose answers will likely support your hypothesis

Clinical researchers are interested in gaining insight into the causes of abnormal behavior. One way that they do this is to delve deeply into the histories of patients with a common diagnosis, interviewing family, friends, teachers, therapists, physicians, babysitters, and others who can provide rich details about the patients’ lives. Then, researchers try to see if there are any common themes in the information gathered. What research method does this strategy represent?

• Experimental

• Case Study

• Naturalistic

• Quasi- Experiment

looking at past records or data sets to look for interesting patterns or relationships

• antiquated research

• outdated research

• archival research

• History research

design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time.

• cross-sectional research

• longitudinal research

• Case Study

• Experiment

research that compares multiple segments of the population at the same time

• Cross Sectional Research

• longitudinal Research

• Experiment

• Case Study