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The psychology final study guide practice test. Yeah buddy
- 1.Cause and effect relationships can be determined by using:
- A.
Case studies
- B.
Controlled expiriments
- C.
Observational research
- D.
Analogue expiriments
- 2.Correlations are an improvement over case studeies becuase from coorelations we can determine:
- A.
The reliability of a relationship
- B.
Cause and effect
- C.
Whether a third variable is responsible for the relationship
- D.
The effecdts of a dependent variable
- 3.A correlation coefficient can be used to determine whether:
- A.
There is a relationship between two variables
- B.
Changes in one variable cuase changes in another variable
- C.
One variable confounds another variable
- D.
The relationship between two variables due to a third variable
- 4.Levels and education and income are generally
- A.
Positively correlated
- B.
Uncorrelated
- C.
Negatively correlated
- D.
Perfectly correlated
- 5.Which of the following correlations indicates the weakest relationship between two variables?
- A.
-.22
- B.
+.65
- C.
-.74
- D.
+.19
- 6.In expiriments, participants are randomly assigned to conditions to avid:
- A.
Placebo effects
- B.
Differences between the gruops that are due to the independent variable
- C.
Experimenter expectations
- D.
Differences between the groups that are not due to the independent variable
- 7.A good way to study the effects of genetic factors on agression would be to:
- A.
Compare the elvels of agression across different biological families
- B.
Do a longitudinal study in which agression is mesaured over a long period of time
- C.
Compare the levels of agression in adopted children to the levels of agression in their biological and their non biological parents
- D.
Study the similarities among adoptees and their biological parents
- 8.The__________ effect is the result of expectations
- A.
Confound
- B.
Placebo
- C.
Validity
- D.
Generalizability
- 9.A distribution has scores of 5, 6, 10, 10, 10, 14, and 40. In this distribution, what two measures of central tendency are the same?
- A.
Mean and variance
- B.
Median and mode
- C.
Median and mean
- D.
Mean and mode
- 10.Increases in arousal are stimulated by the ______ branch of the nervous system, whereas decreases in arousal are stimulated by the _____ branch of the nervous system
- A.
Central, peripheral
- B.
Sympathetic, parasympathetic
- C.
Peripheral, central
- D.
Somatic, autonomic
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