Cards in this guide (18)
A survey question that asks you to write a brief explanation is called
Auto correlation and cross correlation
Auto correlation is the correlation of one signal with
itself.
Cross correlation is the correlation of one signal with a
different signal.
If a married man cheats does that mean there are problems in his marriage
not all the time, depends on how long been married and how he
and wife get along and how often they have sex
The nature-nurture question asks whether
A person's genres or upbringing are more important. :)
Which is most clearly an example of categorical data
Which key difference do experiments have that correlation studies do not have
A treatment is imposed,
ex.)
making the participants take a certain medicine instead of just
allowing them to do what they please and see how they heal.
Which question is most important to biopsychology
How does brain chemistry affect how we feel and act
Experiments can be used to show what
Question-wording bias in a survey can
affect the results of the survey.
The independent variable is associated mainly with
the treatment that the researcher controls directly.
An experiment is designed to compare the differences in learning outcomes between learning math from a video game and learning it from traditional classroom activities The experiment finds no differe
Students learn more from video games than from classroom
activities
The source of math instruction
The amount of math learned
the hawthorne effect
A record of whether a subject is male or female is an example of
An example of a hidden variable would be
Bald people who wear diapers tend to cry more often than other people
What is shown on a scatter plot when the points show no pattern
Under-coverage might occur if a survey on technology asked questions of
people who subscribed to one particular mobile phone service.
An experiment is designed to compare the differences in health outcomes between people who are visited in the hospital by therapy cats and people who are not. Which of these is the independent variabl
Which scenario is best illustrates the concept of illusory correlation
A person believes cell phones cause cancer despite scientific studies finding no correlation between them.
If people who eat a sugary chocolate cereal for breakfast have a lower rate of cancer this shows that
A. We should all eat less of the cereal
B. Eating the cereal lowers your cancer rate
C. We should all eat more of the cereal
D. The cereal might ( or might not) be the cause of a lower cancer rate