Discovering the Scientist Within

Juan is interested in his peers' responses in reaction to spiders. He designs an experimental paradigm where he has fake spiders and real spiders and then monitors his peers' fear responses. Based on Juan's design which variable is the independent variable (IV)?

Which of the following best represents a study using methodological pluralism?

Whitney notices there are advantages and disadvantages to every research procedure. She noted that self-report questionnaires are useful because:

Which of the following would NOT be helpful in reducing social desirability bias in participant responses?

A 2011 study examined the relationship between daily temperature changes and belief in global warming across participants in the United States and Australia. The study found that:

According to a 2013 review of the literature, 97% of published scientific papers agree that climate change is occurring and is caused by human activity. However, as of 2016 approximately _____ of Americans do not believe that the Earth's temperature is rising.

In a 2008 study investigating whether direct experiences with flooding influence risk perception found that flood victims were _____ to engage in behavior that would help eliminate climate change.

Dr. Cullen and Dr. Rosen are having a debate on the inclusion of distractor items on the follow-up questionnaire following the completion of their experimental drug study. Dr. Cullen insists that distractor questions are extremely useful in:

Sabina wishes to use multiple strategies including self-report, interview, and a behavioral measure to answer her research question regarding alcohol use among teenagers. Sabina will most likely be employing:

Self-report measures could unintentionally introduce all of the following into a study, EXCEPT:

A 2010 study examining whether clean scents promote reciprocity and charity found that:

A 2008 study examining the experience of physical warmth on the promotion of interpersonal warmth found that:

Gerard is critically analyzing whether to use a self-report measure in his upcoming research study examining political beliefs. One of Gerard's main concerns regarding using self-report measures is that:

Miguel is a participant in a research study examining environmental beliefs. Miguel continues to try to determine the intention of the researchers, but he often becomes confused by items on the self-report measure that do not clearly relate to that intention. Miguel was attempting to engage in:

In 2009 three interrelated studies were conducted to examine the effect of temperature on social closeness and perception of relationship. Researchers found that:

Juan is interested in his peers' responses in reaction to spiders. He designs an experimental paradigm where he has fake spiders and real spiders and then monitors his peers' fear responses. Based on Juan's design which variable is the dependent variable (DV)?

A 2008 study examining the experience of physical warmth on the promotion of interpersonal warmth found that:

Which of the following would be helpful in reducing the chance of hypothesis-guessing on a measure?

In a 2008 study, researchers examined the cognitive benefits of interacting with nature and found that:

In a 2006 study examining cross-national comparisons of image associations among residents of the United States and the United Kingdom regarding images related to climate change and global warming found: