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Chapter 2 psych review

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Psychology Concepts Quiz

Welcome to the Psychology Concepts Quiz! Test your knowledge on essential psychological principles from Chapter 2. This quiz consists of 10 multiple-choice questions designed to enhance your understanding of key concepts in psychology.

Evaluate your grasp of empirical research.
Understand the importance of hypotheses and measurements.
Delve into correlation and causation.

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The belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation is the definition ofThe belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation is the definition of

Critical thinking.

Dogmatism.

Empiricism

Correlation

Which of the following is the best definition of a hypothesis?

Empirical evidence

A scientific investigation

A falsifiable prediction

A theoretical idea

If a detector is used to measure the same property twice but produces different measurements, then it lacks;

Validity.

Reliability.

Power.

Concreteness.

Aspects of an observational setting that cause people to behave as they think someone wants or expects them to are called

Observer biases.

Type I errors.

Type II errors.

Demand characteristics.

Which of the following describes the average value of all the measurements in a particular distribution?

Mean

Median

Mode

Range

What does the sign of r (the correlation coefficient) show?

The strength of a correlation

The direction of a correlation

The likelihood that random assignment failed

The degree of replicability

When two variables are correlated, what keeps us from concluding that one is the cause and the other is the effect?

The third-variable problem

Observer bias

The strength of the manipulation

The failure of random assignment

A researcher administers a questionnaire concerning attitudes towards tax increases to people of all genders and ages who live all across Canada. The dependent variable in the study is the______________ of the participants.

Age

Gender

Attitude

Geographic location

An experiment that defines variables as they are defined in the real world is

Externally valid

Internally valid

Operationally defined.

Statistically significant.

When people find evidence that confirms their beliefs, they often

Stop looking.

Seek more evidence.

Refuse to believe it.

Take their enemies to lunch.

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