Correlational & Experimental Research 1. In this Learning Pathway 2. Learning Pathway Presentation 3. Reflect & Engage 4. Quiz 5. The Learning Challenge Quiz Review questions Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions: Dr. Klatchuk is conducting an experiment that has two experimental groups. In order to control for differences between her subjects, she flips a coin and uses chance to determine which subjects belong in which group. The procedure that Dr. Klatchuk is using to place participants in the various groups is called: random sampling. Incorrect. random grouping. Incorrect. random assignment. Correct. random choice. Incorrect. Researchers might use ________ when providing participants with the full details of the experiment could skew their responses. informed consent Incorrect. deception Correct. ethics Incorrect. debriefing Incorrect. Dr. Ishigami is interested in whether meditation can have an impact on a person’s openness to new experiences. Her experiment includes two groups of participants: one group who are trained in meditation over the course of 3 weeks and another group that spent a comparable amount of time taking a nutrition course. She measures participants’ openness using the Standard Openness Scale, a survey tool that has been used in past research to measure a person’s openness. What is the independent variable? Openness Incorrect. Standard Openness Scale Incorrect. Meditation training Correct. Nutrition Condition Incorrect. Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between two variables? -.50 Incorrect. -.90 Correct. +.80 Incorrect. 0.01 Incorrect. If income and shoe size are positively correlated, which of the following statements is TRUE? As shoe size decreases income also decreases. Correct. Usually someone with small feet will earn a high income. Incorrect. As shoe size decreases income varies randomly. Incorrect. Usually someone earning a low income will have large feet. Incorrect. Research demonstrates that the Myers-Briggs Personality-Type Indicator does not align with any other empirically-tested personality assessment tool. It also does not produce the same results consistently in the same participants at two different time points. These findings suggests that the Myers-Briggs has _____ and _____, respectively. low validity; low reliability Correct. low reliability; low validity Incorrect. low validity; high reliability Incorrect. low reliability; high validity Incorrect. Sources OpenStax, Psychology. OpenStax CNX. Oct 31, 2016 Download for free at http://cnx.org/contents/4abf04bf-93a0-45c3-9cbc-2cefd46e68cc@5.52. ← Previous Next →
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