Question: Applying the principles of the “Windows and Mirrors Theory” as found in your provided resource, which did I say occurred for me personally when I reflected on Sara’s comment that her favorite food was “baked potato knishes and babka cakes”?
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Answer: window
Question: Applying the principles of the “Windows and Mirrors Theory” as found in your provided resource, which is demonstrated when Person A identifies their experience as being the same as or similar to that of Person B?
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Answer: mirror
Question: Applying the principles of the “Windows and Mirrors Theory” as found in your provided resource, which did I say occurred for me personally when I reflected on Sara’s comment that she has “never driven a car because it’s cheaper to take taxi’s or subways around town”?
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Answer: window
Question: According to the resource provided, what fallacy is being used in the following question: “Was it right or wrong to take that class?”
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Answer: polarization
Question: According to the resource provided, what fallacy is being used in the following statement: “I always know what’s going on.”
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Answer: allness
Question: Dr. Tso is interested in studying whether active play versus passive play results in a preference for sweet or salty foods in toddlers. She assigns groups of children to either an active play, passive play, or no play group, and then documents their food choices when presented with a variety of sweet and salty foods. In this study, ___ is the independent variable and ___ is the control group.
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Answer: type of play; no play
Question: Professor Ingaldson wants to know whether eating sugary snacks before bedtime makes children more active. In his study, a sugary snack before bedtime is the:
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Answer: independent variable
Question: Corina is participating in a research study in which the subjects’ participation must be completely voluntary. In addition, the subjects are given enough information about the study to make an intelligent decision about participating. This scenario demonstrates the concept known as:
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Answer: informed consent
Question: Justin believes that television programs create unrealistic expectations of wealth, success, and romance that cause people to become dissatisfied with their lives. He randomly samples students at his college and surveys them about their TV viewing habits. Justin finds that students who watch more television have higher levels of depression than students who watch less TV. Can Justin conclude that TV viewing causes depression?
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Answer: No, correlation is not causation
Question: According to the Crash Course video, “Introduction to Psychology, Episode #1”, the word Psychology comes from the Latin word meaning:
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Answer: the study of the soul
Question: According to John Oliver’s video “Scientific Studies” one of the best practices that the scientific community has to guard against “fluke-ish” results in research studies is ___.
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Answer: replication study
Question: Dr. Salazar and Dr. Carr plan to conduct a study where they will hire and train actors to attend speed dating events, posing as daters. The researchers will then carefully take notes on the behaviors of the daters. What type of research design are they using?
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Answer: naturalistic observation
Question: In the video “The ethical problem with Facebook’s emotional experiment” what ethical violation did Facebook and the researchers commit?
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Answer: They failed to obtain informed consent from the participants
Question: In a laboratory setting, smokers are asked to drive using a computerized driving simulator and travel a set number of miles at a set speed, while avoiding rear-end collisions. The volunteers in one group smoke real cigarettes immediately before the test. The volunteers in the second group smoke fake cigarettes without nicotine. The number of collisions the two groups make is to be compared. The control group in this scenario consists of:
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Answer: volunteers who smoke fake cigarettes
Question: Dr. Singh has a hypothesis that proposes that consuming fewer carbohydrates will result in increased weight loss. Which of the following is the dependent variable here?
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Answer: the amount of weight lost
Question: Niko has always believed that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She searches the literature and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using only the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of ___.
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Answer: confirmation bias
Question: Which of the following is a limitation that affects the generalizability of research results?
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Answer: small sample size