Question 1

Imagine that Dr.Jones publishes a study that claims that drinking while pregnant is dangerous for the health of the unborn baby.He finds that of the 100 women in his study who drank when pregnant,78 had children who experienced problems with attention.Of the 100 women in his study who did not drink when pregnant,only 29 children experienced problems with attention.Your neighbor says that Dr.Jones is wrong because she drank when pregnant and her child is perfectly healthy.Explain why Dr.Jones is not wrong.

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Question 2

Yasmine believes that attractive people make more money because among her four friends who work at a local restaurant,the most attractive of the four makes the most in tips.A study by Judge,Hurst,and Simon (2009)found that attractive people make more money.Provide two reasons why Yasmine should be more convinced about the relationship between attractiveness and income by the Judge,Hurst,and Simon paper than by her personal experience.

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Question 3

You are having lunch with several friends and discussing the link between homework and exam grades.Oliver says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because I always do my homework and I have a 4.0." Julia says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because a blog I read on an education website says so." Richard says,"I know that doing homework improves exam grades because that makes sense.Teachers would not assign it if it did not." Provide a response to each friend for why his or her reasoning is unsound.

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Question 4

Charlotte is studying subliminal messages and weight loss.She is curious whether people will lose more weight if they hear subliminal messages that encourage weight loss ("don't eat that food," "you want to be thin")in the music on their iPods than will people who do not have subliminal messages in their music.She studies 40 people and finds the following results:

-Although Charlotte is concerned with exposure to subliminal messages,she collects data from people not exposed to subliminal messages.What is this group called? Why must this group be included in her study?

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Question 5

Provide at least three reasons that explain why a wiki is a less-than-ideal source for psychological research.

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Question 6

Karla is starting her study for her research methods and needs to begin finding some research articles.She tells you that she plans on searching for her sources on Google Scholar.Provide three reasons that you would recommend that she use PsycINFO instead to search for sources.

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Question 7

Describe three ways that scientific journals/journal articles are different from popular magazines/magazine articles.

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Question 8

Charlotte is studying subliminal messages and weight loss.She is curious whether people will lose more weight if they hear subliminal messages that encourage weight loss ("don't eat that food," "you want to be thin")in the music on their iPods than will people who do not have subliminal messages in their music.She studies 40 people and finds the following results:

-Explain why the results of Cell B and Cell D are important.

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Question 9

Name three ways that the scientific reasoner is different from the intuitive thinker.

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Question 10

Name the six basic sections of an empirical journal article.

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Question 11

When reading an empirical journal article "with purpose," which two questions should you ask yourself as you read? To this end,which section should you read first in order to quickly answer these questions?

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Question 12

Describe two pros and two cons of reading about scientific research in popular magazines compared with reading about research in scientific journals.

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Question 13

Explain how confirmatory hypothesis testing is different from the theory-data cycle.

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Question 14

Name three examples of biases of intuition.

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Question 15

Your friend Samir wants to learn how to be more persuasive.He is a marketing major and thinks that understanding more about persuasion might be helpful.Which type of scientific sources might you recommend to him and why?

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Quiz 2: Sources of Information: Evaluating, finding, and Reading Information