How Wise A Research Consumer Are You?
5 Questions
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the replication problem in psychology all about?
- A.
Researchers are replicating studies at such a rapid speed that there isn’t enough generation of new hypotheses in the field.
- B.
Researchers aren’t replicating studies at all, which leads to problems of generalizability.
- C.
Researchers are replicating studies and finding that the results don’t match those of the original study.
- D.
Scientists are making human clones.
- 2.People shouldn't worry about whether research put out in the media generalizes to all groups of people.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.What do you call the uncontrollable variables that can effect research results?
- A.
Mediating factors
- B.
Moderator effects
- C.
Research questions
- 4.P-hacking is essentially cheating
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Regarding research practices, WEIRD stands for:
- A.
Women Engineers In Research Development
- B.
White, Educated, Rich, Industrialized, Democratic
- C.
Weird, Educational, Interesting Research Data
- D.
Where Everything Is Research Data
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