PSYC 335 Week 1 Quiz

 PSYC 335 Week 1 Quiz | Los Rios Community College District Office

Quiz 1 - the Scientific Approach and Method Results for Audrey Tsikata

 

Question 1

A researcher is testing out different advertising messages to encourage Californians to save water. The research is conducting applied research.

Question 2

Alyx is a scientist. Someone tells Alyx that non-binary people have low self-esteem. Alyx looks up research and finds that there is no clear answer because most past research has lumped transgender people and non-binary people into a single category. Alyx is likely to believe that we don't know about the self-esteem of non-binary people because they probably have a tolerance for uncertainty .

Question 3

Is the following example a good hypothesis, a bad hypothesis, or a theory?

·         theory 

·         bad hypothesis 

·         good hypothesis

 

Question 4

Is the following example a good hypothesis, a bad hypothesis, or a theory?

Romantic attraction exists so that people will have sex and make babies, ensuring that the human species continues.  

·         good hypothesis 

·         bad hypothesis 

·         theory

 

 Question 5

Is the following example a good hypothesis, a bad hypothesis, or a theory?

Men and women will perform equally well on a difficult math test if they are told that there are usually no sex differences on the test. 

·         good hypothesis

·         theory 

·         bad hypothesis

Question 6

What is likely one of the main reasons that experienced researchers have an easier time coming up with research ideas than psychology students do?  

·         Experienced researchers have money to pay people to come up with good ideas for them. College students have less money so they have to come up with their own ideas.  

·         Experienced researchers are usually older than students and have higher levels of fluid intelligence.  

·         Experienced researchers have read about a lot more past research than the students have.  

·         Experienced researchers are more creative than psychology students are.

 

 Question 7

Publishing the results of one's research is important because    

·         research questions only become empirical questions once they are published.  

·         researchers get paid a lot of money for each article they publish.  

·         publication allows science to be self-correcting.  

·         once an article is published that tests a particular hypothesis, other researchers know that they should test other hypotheses instead.

 

 Question 8

An advertiser claims that 50% of people lose at least five pounds in the first month when using their diet plan. A scientific critical thinker would  

·         be convinced because the ad contains scientific evidence.  

·         want to know more details about the research that led to the claim.  

·         not be convinced because this implies that the other 50% of the people who used the diet plan did not lose weight.  

·         be convinced because whether the diet plan causes people to lose weight is an empirical question.

 

 

Question 9

What is a limitation of the scientific method?  

·         The scientific method relies too much on logic and it is easy to make logical errors.  

·         It can only be used to test empirical questions.  

·         The scientific method relies too much on the intuition of researchers.  

·         It is not possible to conduct research that is both scientific and ethical.

 Question 10

If you want to apply the three goals of science to your cat, you would need to  

·         explain why she bites people. 

·         All of the answer choices are correct.  

·         predict the situations in which she will be likely to bite someone in the future.  

·         describe who she bites and who she lets pet her.