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What are three possible cause-and-effect relationships for this non experimental observation?
How might the use of one or the other lead to different conclusions from experimental results regarding who helps more, males or females?
What if an outgoing person has a job that requires them to meet very few people? They may be considered (incorrectly) shy by this operational definition.
What is meant by the problem of direction of cause and effect and the third-variable problem?
What is the difference between an independent variable and a dependent variable? Distinguish between laboratory and field experiments.
Define operational definition of a variable. Give at least two operational definitions of the variables you thought of in the previous review question.
What is a variable? List at least fi ve diff erent variables and then describe at least two levels of each variable. For example, age is a variable.
Should people who are observed in field experiments debriefed? Write a paragraph supporting the pro position and another paragraph supporting the con position.
What ethical considerations, if any, do you perceive in this field experiment? Is there any deception involved?
What are the ethical issues raised by this procedure? Compare your reactions to that procedure with your reactions to an analogous.
Discuss the ethical issues raised by the experiment. What alternative methods for studying this problem (reactions to death) might you suggest?
Summarize the ethical procedures for research with animals. Describe how you would proceed to identify plagiarism in a writing assignment.
What is the diff erence between no risk and minimal risk research activities? What is an Institutional Review Board?
Why is informed consent an ethical principle? What are the potential problems with obtaining fully informed consent?
How can researchers weigh the need to conduct research against the need for ethical procedures?
Identify a consistent behavior pattern in yourself or somebody close to you (e.g., you consistently get into an argument with your sister on Friday nights).
For each, develop a hypothesis that is suggested by the saying and a prediction that follows from the hypothesis. (Based on Gardner, 1988.)
What are the two functions of a theory? Describe the diff erence in the way that past research is found when you use PsycINFO versus the key article method.
What is the distinction between a hypothesis and a prediction? What information does the researcher communicate in each of the sections of research article?
Provide specific details of the experience(s). How might you go about investigating whether the claim is valid?
Discuss the finding in terms of the issues of identification of cause and effect and explanation.
Describe a possible sampling procedure using a nonprobability sampling technique. Then describe how you might sample books using probability sampling technique.
What was the nature of the sampling strategy? What was the final sample size? What was the response rate for the survey?
Write at least five closed-ended questions that you might include in the survey. For each question, write one good version and one poor version.
Can you conclude that television viewing causes teen pregnancy? Why or why not? How might you expand the scope of this investigation through a panel study?