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Question #1
A process where something happens to activate a particular identity. Once reminded of the identity it moves to the forefront of how we think about ourselves and therefore influences our behavior
A  Placebo Effect
B  Priming
C  Naturalistic generalization
D  Population Generalization
Question #2
This type of experiment tends to have higher external validity (since they are conducted in natural settings) but have lower internal validity because the researcher is unable to control many facets of the experiment.
A  Field Experiments
B  Priming
C  Placebo Effect
D  Statistical regression effect
Question #3
This is a type of experiment which tends to have higher internal validity but lower external validity. They are better controlled than field experiments but have less generalizability because they are conducted in labs and participants know that they are part of a study.
A  Demand Characteristics
B  Laboratory Experiments
C  Diffusion of Treatment
D  Priming
Question #4
A study that takes place in a natural setting such as a subway car, a liquor store, or a public sidewalk. Participants are usually unaware that they are involved in an experiment and react in a natural way.
A  Diffusion of Treatment
B  Field Experiments
C  Field Experiments
D  Priming
Question #5
A separate measure of independent or dependent variables to verify their measurement validity and/or experimental realism.
A  Field Experiments
B  Manipulation Check
C  History Effect
D  Experimenter Expectancy
Question #6
A threat to external validity that occurs because participants are aware that they are in the experiment and being studied.
A  Selection Bias
B  Experimenter Expectancy
C  Reactivity
D  Maturation Effect
Question #7
asks whether the researcher can accurately generalize from an abstract theory that he or she is testing from a set of measures in the experiment.
A  Testing Effect
B  Laboratory Experiments
C  Experimenter Expectancy
D  Theoretical Generalization
Question #8
the impact of an experimental treatment or setting on people; it occurs when participants are caught up in theexperiment and are truly influenced by it
A  Mundane Realism
B  Experimental Realism
C  Priming
D  Naturalistic generalization
Question #9
asks whether an experiment or a situation is like the real world.
A  Population Generalization
B  Mundane Realism
C  Experimental Realism
D  Double Blind Experiment
Question #10
whether or not a researcher can generalize accurately from what was learned in an artificially created controlled laboratory setting to real life natural settings.
A  Mundane Realism
B  Naturalistic generalization
C  Theoretical Generalization
D  Population Generalization
Question #11
When researchers can accurately generalize from what they learn in an experiment to a population.
A  Population Generalization
B  Experimental Realism
C  Naturalistic generalization
D  Theoretical Generalization
Question #12
A threat to internal validity that occurs when participants do not receive the real treatment but receive a non-active or imitation treatment but respond as though they have received the real treatment.
A  Placebo Effect
B  Experimenter Expectancy
C  Double Blind Experiment
D  Demand Characteristics
Question #13
a threat to internal validity that occurs when research participants pick up clues about the hypothesis or an experiment’s purpose and modify their behavior to what they think the research demands of them
A  History Effect
B  Naturalistic generalization
C  Statistical regression effect
D  Demand Characteristics
Question #14
It is a design intended to control experimenter expectancy. In this type of experiment the only people who have direct contact with participants do not know the details of the hypothesis or treatment.
A  Selection Bias
B  Naturalistic generalization
C  Double Blind Experiment
D  Experimental Mortality
Question #15
A threat to internal validity where the experimenter indirectly makes participants aware of the hypothesis or desired results
A  Demand Characteristics
B  Internal Validity
C  Experimenter Expectancy
D  Reactivity
Question #16
A threat to internal validity when participants in the control group modify their behavior to make up for not getting the treatment.
A  Compensatory Behavior
B  Placebo Effect
C  Reactivity
D  External Validity
Question #17
A threat to internal validity that occurs when the treatment “spills over” from the experimental group and control group and participants modify their behavior because they have learned about the treatment.
A  Diffusion of Treatment
B  Placebo Effect
C  Maturation Effect
D  Demand Characteristics
Question #18
A threat to internal validity from measurement instruments providing extreme values and a tendency for random errors to move extreme results toward the average.
A  Compensatory Behavior
B  Maturation Effect
C  Demand Characteristics
D  Statistical regression effect
Question #19
A threat to internal validity that occurs when some research participants do not continue throughout the entire experiment.
A  Diffusion of Treatment
B  Experimental Mortality
C  Diffusion of Treatment
D  Testing Effect
Question #20
a threat to internal validity that occurs when the instrument changes during the
A  Testing Effect
B  Instrumentation
C  Diffusion of Treatment
D  Compensatory Behavior
Question #21
a threat to internal validity that occurs because the very process of conducting a pre-test can have an effect on the outcome (dependent variable
A  Diffusion of Treatment
B  Testing Effect
C  Compensatory Behavior
D  Statistical regression effect
Question #22
A threat to internal validity where a natural processes of growth, boredom, or maturity occurs during the experiment and affects the dependent variable.
A  History Effect
B  Experimental Mortality
C  Selection Bias
D  Maturation Effect
Question #23
a threat to internal validity which results from an unplanned event occurring which is outside the control of the experimenter.
A  Internal Validity
B  Selection Bias
C  History Effect
D  Experimental Mortality
Question #24
It is one of the threats to internal validity where that occurs when groups in an experiment are not equivalent at the beginning of the study.
A  History Effect
B  Selection Bias
C  Internal Validity
D  Testing Effect
Question #25
the ability to generalize findings beyond a specific study
A  Testing Effect
B  Internal Validity
C  External Validity
D  Maturation Effect
Question #26
Occurs when the independent variable, and nothing else, influences the dependent variable.
A  Maturation Effect
B  Experimental Mortality
C  Internal Validity
D  Testing Effect
Question #27
an effect of two independent variables operating simultaneously and in combination on a dependent variable. It is a larger effect than occurs from the sum of each independent variable working separately.
A  Latin Square Design
B  Experimental Mortality
C  Interactional Effect
D  Compensatory Behavior
Question #28
an experimental plan that considers the impact of several independent variables simultaneously.
A  Latin Square Design
B  Compensatory Behavior
C  Factorial Design
D  Maturation Effect
Question #29
An experimental plan in which participants are randomly assigned to two control groups and two experimental groups; only one experimental and control group receive a pre-test; all four groups receive a post-test. This design is used to check for the testing effect.
A  Solomon Four Group Design
B  Interactional Effect
C  Experimenter Expectancy
D  External Validity
Question #30
An experimental plan to examine whether the order or sequence in which participants receive versions of the treatment has an effect
A  Latin Square Design
B  External Validity
C  Experimental Mortality
D  Interactional Effect
Question #31
An experimental plan in which there are several repeated pretests, posttest, and treatments for one group often over a period of time.
A  Equivalent Time Series
B  Pre-Experimental Designs
C  External Validity
D  Confounding variables
Question #32
An experimental plan in which the dependent variable is measured periodically across many time points and the treatment occurs in the midst of such measures, often only once.
A  Instrumentation
B  Pre-Experimental Designs
C  Interrupted Time Series
D  Latin Square Design
Question #33
Plans that are stronger than pre-experimental designs, but are still variations of the classical design. They are used in situations where the experimenter has limited control over the independent variable.
A  Latin Square Design
B  Quasi-Experimental Designs
C  Pre-Experimental Designs
D  Testing Effect
Question #34
Experimental plans that lack random assignment or use shortcuts and are much weaker than the classical design. They are substituted in situations where an experimenter cannot use all of the features of a classical design
A  Pre-Experimental Designs
B  Confounding variables
C  Maturation Effect
D  Latin Square Design
Question #35
an alternative to random assignment where research subjects are assigned to the experimental and control groups based on known
A  Maturation Effect
B  Matching
C  History Effect
D  Selection Bias
Question #36
Participants are divided into groups at the beginning of the study using a random process so the experimenter can treat the groups as equivalent
A  Random Assignment
B  Pretest
C  External Validity
D  Matching
Question #37
A type of deception in which the experimenter tells a false story to participants so that they will act as wanted and do not know the true nature of the study
A  Cover Story
B  Control Group
C  Internal Validity
D  Confounding variables
Question #38
A person working for the experimenter who acts as another participant or in a role in front of participants to deceive them with an experimenter’s cover story
A  Experimental Group
B  Confederate
C  Matching
D  Confounding variables
Question #39
A lie by an experimenter to participants about the true nature of an experiment or the creation of a false impression through his or her actions or the setting
A  Cover Story
B  Confounding variables
C  Deception
D  Experimental Group
Question #40
A test that measures the dependent variable of an experiment after the treatment
A  Random Assignment
B  Behaviorism
C  Matching
D  Posttest
Question #41
The outcome of the experiment.
A  Dependent Variable
B  Behaviorism
C  Cover Story
D  Random Assignment
Question #42
The independent variable in experimental research
A  Dependent Variable
B  Quantification
C  Random Assignment
D  Treatment
Question #43
A test that measures the dependent variable of an experiment prior to the treatment
A  Confederate
B  Random Assignment
C  Pretest
D  Deception
Question #44
The participants who do not receive the treatment
A  Confederate
B  Confounding variables
C  Deception
D  Control Group
Question #45
The participants who receive the treatment
A  Experimental Group
B  Dependent Variable
C  Control Group
D  Cover Story
Question #46
Participants are randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group
A  Pretest
B  Treatment
C  Random Assignment
D  Dependent Variable
Question #47
They are known as the participants in experimental research
A  Experimental Group
B  Random Assignment
C  Control Group
D  Subjects
Question #48
Advocated using experiments in factories to increase productivity.
A  Erik Erikson
B  Frederick W. Taylor
C  Kurt Koffka
D  Wilhelm M. Wundt
Question #49
Measuring social phenomena with numbers
A  Confederate
B  Quantification
C  Posttest
D  Deception
Question #50
a school of psychology founded in the 1920’s that emphasized measuring observable behavior or outcomes of mental life and advocated the experimental method for conducting rigorous empirical tests of hypotheses.
A  Experiment
B  Confounding variables
C  Confederate
D  Behaviorism
Question #51
German psychologist who introduced the experimental method. He established a laboratory for experimentation that became a model for social research.
A  Kurt Koffka
B  Wilhelm M. Wundt
C  Carl Stumpf
D  Erik Erikson
Question #52
In experimental research, these are factors that are not part of the intended hypothesis being tested, but that have effects on variables of interest and threaten internal validity
A  Treatment
B  Confounding variables
C  Experimental Group
D  Dependent Variable
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