Chapter 2: Problem 15
Anecdotal evidence: A. is often concrete, vivid, and memorable. B. tends to influence people. C. is fundamentally flawed and unreliable. D. is all of the above.
Chapter 2: Problem 15
Anecdotal evidence: A. is often concrete, vivid, and memorable. B. tends to influence people. C. is fundamentally flawed and unreliable. D. is all of the above.
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Get started for freeThe problem of experimenter bias can be avoided by: A. not informing participants of the hypothesis of the experiment. B. telling the subjects that there are no "right" or "wrong" answers. C. using a research strategy in which neither subjects nor experimenter know which participants are in the experimental and control groups. D. having the experimenter use only nonverbal signals when communicating with the participants.
A tentative prediction about the relationship between two variables is: A. a confounding of variables. B. an operational definition. C. a theory. D. a hypothesis.
A researcher wants to see whether a protein-enriched diet will enhance the maze-running performance of rats. One group of rats are fed the high-protein diet for the duration of the study; the other group continues to receive ordinary rat chow. In this experiment, the diet fed to the two groups of rats is the ______________ variable. A. correlated B. control C. dependent D. independent
Researchers must describe the actions that will be taken to measure or control each variable in their studies. In other words, they must: A. provide operational definitions of their variables. B. decide if their studies will be experimental or correlational. C. use statistics to summarize their findings. D. decide how many subjects should participate in their studies.
Whenever you have a cold, you rest in bed, take aspirin, and drink plenty of fluids. You can't determine which remedy is most effective because of which of the following problems? A. sampling bias B. distorted self-report data C. confounding of variables D. experimenter bias
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