Match the description of each study with the scientific question being used. Use
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Match the description of each study with the scientific question being used. Use each once, not at all, or more than once.
A study determines the link between mother’s diet and birth defects.
[ Choose ] Correlation Experiment
A study enables us to predict student’s academic success based on knowledge of their performance on an intelligence test.
[ Choose ] Correlation Experiment
A study investigates the relationship between blood type and disease X.
[ Choose ] Correlation Experiment
A study looks into the relationship between college entrance exam scores and college success (grade point average).
[ Choose ] Correlation Experiment
A study measures the effects of a placebo versus a new treatment for depression.
[ Choose ] Correlation Experiment
Match the description of each study with the scientific question being used. Use each answer on the right only once.
A study looks at the relationship between marital arguments and marital satisfaction.
[ Choose ] Case Study Survey Experiment Naturalistic Observation Correlation
A double-blind study is conducted to determine the results of drinking and driving.
[ Choose ] Case Study Survey Experiment Naturalistic Observation Correlation
A study measures the attitudes of a college’s student body toward proposed changes at the college.
[ Choose ] Case Study Survey Experiment Naturalistic Observation Correlation
A study documents the details of a woman with multiple personalities.
[ Choose ] Case Study Survey Experiment Naturalistic Observation Correlation
A study documents (without further study) the behavior of teenagers at a mall.
[ Choose ] Case Study Survey Experiment Naturalistic Observation Correlation
Researchers find that among couples who live together before marriage there is a higher divorce rate compared to couples who marry without living together first. From this information we can conclude that…
There is a positive correlation between living together and divorce rates.
People who live together “use up” the good years before they are even married.
There are many interesting ways to interpret this correlation, but we just can’t be sure which one is right.
It is a negative correlation because divorce tends to be a negative life event.
People who are highly religious do not live together outside of marriage nor divorce once they are married.
Living together before marriage causes problems in the relationship leading to divorce.
Waiting to live together until after marriage makes the relationship stronger and less susceptible to divorce.
There is a negative correlation between living together and divorce rates.
Developmental psychologists survey parents about the number of children’s books in the home and compare these numbers to children’s reading abilities. The researchers find a positive correlation between the number of books and children’s reading ability. Based on this information, which of the following can we assume are TRUE?
The better reading ability causes children to want more books.
A higher number of books causes better reading abilities.
Parents who enjoy reading buy more books and spend more time reading to their children.
There is some kind of relationship between books and reading ability.
Number of books and reading ability seem to be related, but we can’t tell why.
Health researchers measure how often people exercise and how often the same people come down with the flu. The researchers find a negative correlation between the amount of weekly exercise and the number of flu symptoms in an individual. Based on this information, which of the following can we assume are TRUE?
Exercising causes people to be more healthy and less susceptible to the flu.
Since the flu is a bad thing, this makes it a negative correlation.
People who have the flu more often tend to exercise less.
People who get sick do not have time to exercise.
Since exercise reduces the flu, this is really positive correlation because the result is good.
People who exercise more tend to have the flu less often.
Explanation / Answer
1) Corrleational study 2) Experimental study 3) Correlational study 4) Corelational study 5) Experimental study 6) Naturalistic observation 7) Survery 8) Experimental 9) Case Study 10) Naturalistic observation 11) Waiting to live together until marriage makes relationship stronger and less suspectible to divorce 12) The better reading ability causes children to want more books. 13) People who exercise more tend to have the flu less often.
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