1) If the correlation coefficient between amount of exposure to television violence and aggressive behavior was found to be +0.43 we conclude that
a watching tv violence tends to casue aggresive behavior
b being an aggressive person tends to cause one to watch more violent tv
c people who watch the most tv tend to be the least aggressive
d there is a possitive relationship between these two variables

2) The doctor is interested in peoples reaction to a controversial jury verdict. The doctor calls people at their home between the hours of 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on a tuesday afternoon. In this example the doctor has most likely selected
a a representative sample

b a biased population
c a biased sample
d a statistically significant population

3) a doctor is studying aggression in children and plans to define aggression as the number of times one child pushes or strikes another child. defining aggression in this way would
a be an example of a hypothesis
b violate ethical guidelines for psychological research
c represent an operational definition
d require a double blind research design

4) going to a playground for an hour each day for two weeks and recording girl boy exchanges would be an example of
a a case study
b a survey
c a naturalistic observation
d an experiment

5) one of the following correlation coefficients, the one that would allow the most accurate predictions of one variable based on the other variable would be
a 0.00
b +1.24
c +0.65
d 0.79

6) the correct sequencing of the sections of the main body of a journal article would be

a introduction, method, results, discussion
b introduction, discusion, method, results,
c discusion, introduction, method, results
d method, introduction, results, discusion

7) The doctor predicts that if people are observed while they perform a complex task they will make more errors, the doctors prediction is an example of

a a hypothesis
b an operational definition
c a theory
d inferential statistics

8) subjects self reports often indicate that they are healthier, happier, and less prejudiced than other types of evidence would suggest. the most likely explanation is

a experimenter bias
b faulty memory
c the social desirability bias
d the tendancy to agree with almost every statement

9) as the number of bystanders increase, people are less likely to help someone who is in distress, this suggests that the size of a crowd and helping behavior are
a negatively correlated
b uncorrelated
c positively correlated
d dependant variables

10) Jackson is working with a company to help them develop more effective training programs for their employees. He has spent a great deal of time reviewing all the documents the company has about previous training opportunities they have provided for their employees. Up to this point in time , Jackson has been engaged in
a psychological testing
b archival research
c direct observation

d meta analysis

11) a group of researchers wanted to determone if people will eat more food in a room with red paint and red decorations than in a room that is decorated blue. Half the participants in the study ate in a red room and half ate in a blue room. the researchers then measured how much food was consumed in each of the two rooms. in this study the independent variable was

a the type of food that was available during the study
b the amount of food that was consumed
c the color of decorations in the room
d how hungry the participants were at the end of the study

12) an industrial designer wants to determine if the new design for a piece of office equipment will result in fewer errors. The designer sets up a machine with the old design in one room, and a machine with the new design in a second room. He counts how many errors are made using each of the two machines. In this study, the number of errors that are made would be
a a control variable
b the dependent variable
c the independent variable
d an extraneous variable