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to a lecture by One night, you mital inidelity, he suggests thar a psychologist who emphasizes our early ancestors. For example, when vior and increased the chances for survival. It is likely that the monogamous was adaptive psychologist endorses the problems. You psychologist. A classmate comes to you because he is concerned that his best friend is experiencing should suggest to your classmate that his friend may benefit by talking to a(n) Chapter 2 events, physical, mental, and behavioral, are the result of, or are determined by, specific causal factors is known as what? A psychologist has generated a hypothesis. What's next? There is a joke among scientists about a researcher who tells others that he belongs to a secret scientifie society. where no one but the researcher will ever know about the studies members are doing. This joke is humorous because it violates which principle? In an aneedote presented in the textbook, Hugo Munsterberg, a leading psychologist around the beginning of the 20th century, describes the various reported reactions to a speech he gave on peace. What did the reactions illustrate? If a researcher defines variables or conditions in terms of the specific procedures used to determine their presence, he or she is using a(n), definition. What is the basic idea underlying the experimental method? Imagine that you have been hired to assist in an experiment investigating the verbal abilities of boys and girls. In preparing for the experiment, you read a research study that found higher verbal abilities in girls than boys. If this information about gender leads you somehow to communicate to the girls in the experiment that they should do better than the boys, we say that the effect is operating. A psychologist is doing research for a pharmaceutical company. The drugs he is testing are numbered so that he does not know what they are, nor does he know which participants are receiving which drugs. Participants are also unaware of differences in treatments. The control that is being used in this study is called what? en planning a study, you determine that of the one hundred participants, fifty will have to be randomly assigned to the experimental condition and the other fifty to the control condition. The type of experimental design you are using is known as a design. A psychologist has collected data on the physical agility of young adults and now wishes to collect similar responses from elderly people. On the basis of sampling theory, where he should attempt to recruit research participants? A teacher is trying to see whether smiling at her students will increase the number of questions they ask. In t first and third week of the study, the number of questions students ask is recorded. In the second week the teacher smiles a lot at her students, and the number of questions is also recorded. What type of research design is being used? Can you tell the difference between an weak and strong correlation merely by looking at values?

Explanation / Answer

Answer.

1. It is likely that the psychologist endorses ‘evolutionary perspective’

2. The friend can benefit from a professional help provided by a ‘ clinical psychologist ‘.

Chapter 2: 1. The correct answer is ‘ determinism’ as it emphasises on causal explanations.

2. The next step following hypothesis formation is to test whether the hypothesis about a significant relationship between the independent and the dependent variables is valid by operationalising the variables under study.