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1. Question: When interrogating experiments, on which of the big validities should a person focus?
2. Question: Which of the following cannot be found in a one-group, pretest/posttest design?
3. Question: Observer bias can threaten which of the following big validities?
4. Question: Morimoto is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. He assigns half his participants to play a video game for five minutes and the other half to play for seven minutes. He finds that there is no relationship between playing the game longer and being more aggressive. What might be to blame for this null effect?
5. Question: Sanderson is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. She assigns half her participants to play a violent video game for 5 minutes and the other half to play the same game for 25 minutes. Afterward, she has them play a board game and has a well-trained coder determine whether they are very aggressive in their playing style, barely aggressive, or not at all aggressive. She finds that a vast majority of her participants, regardless of group assignment, are rated as very aggressive. This outcome would be known as a/an:
6. Question: A confound that keeps a researcher from finding a relationship between two variables is known as a/an:
7. Question: Unsystematic variability in a study is also known as:
8. Question: Testing threats involve whereas instrumentation threats involve        .
9. Question: When a double-blind study is not possible, an acceptable alternative may be a .
10. Question: What are the two main reasons to conduct a factorial study?
11. Question: The number of main effects that need to be examined is the number of independent
12. Question: According to the textbook, why is it important to study interactions?
13. Question: Gavin is conducting a 2 ×4 independent-groups factorial design. How many independent variables are in his study?
14. Question: Neely is examining the graph of an interaction and sees that one line is flat and one line rises sharply to the right. Which of the following should Neely conclude?
15. Question: What is the difference between a main effect and an overall effect?
16. Question: Psychologists use which of the following strategies to determine a study’s replicability?
17. Question: Which of the following is true of a scientific literature?
18. Question: Responsible journalists do which of the following as it pertains to discussing replicability?
19. Question: Which of the following types of study does NOT support external validity?
20. Question: When generalizing the results of a sample to a population, which of the following is the most important question to ask?
21. Question: ____ is a sub-discipline of psychology that works primarily in the generalization
22. Question: Which of the following is an advantage of studies that are conducted in real-world settings?
23. Question: Replicability helps interrogate which of the four big validities?
24. Question: Who determines the population to which a study’s findings generalize?
25. Question: A researcher in theory-testing mode focuses on , while a researcher in generalization mode focuses on             .