Solved by verified expert :61) Professor
Gaggos wants to determine whether the needs for personal space are different in
Greece than they are in Canada. His results will be used to train business
executives in maintaining appropriate conversational distances. The research
method appropriate to his purpose would be:
A) naturalistic observation.
B) a case study.
C) an objective inventory.
D) laboratory observation.
62) Professor
Hardin wants to know if people consume greater quantities of alcohol during
“happy hour” specials. It is most likely that she will use the
________ method to explore this topic.
A) double-blind
B) experimental
C) naturalistic observation
D) case study
63) When
researchers visited 32 pubs in one city they ordered beers and recorded
observations on napkins and pieces of newspaper. The reason they kept records
in this way was:
A) to be able to determine experimenter
effects at a later point in time.
B) to make sure that their intentions
were not obvious to those they were observing.
C) to conduct a double-blind study in
each of the pubs.
D) to make sure the study had
test-retest reliability.
64) Tess
agrees to sleep in a laboratory for three nights so that researchers can obtain
information about her brain and muscle activity during sleep. She is taking
part in a ________ study.
A) double-blind
B) single-blind
C) laboratory observation
D) naturalistic observation
65) Psychologists
sometimes prefer to make observations in a laboratory setting rather than a
naturalistic setting because:
A) subjects take their participation
seriously in a professional environment.
B) it is too time-consuming to have to
drive from place to place to observe subjects.
C) a lab allows the researchers to have
more control over the situation.
D) laboratory observation results
generalize to everyday life.
66) Professor
Steegel wants to know how infants of different ages respond when left with a
stranger. The most efficient approach to explore this topic would be to conduct
a:
A) naturalistic observation.
B) series of case studies.
C) laboratory observation.
D) double-blind experiment.
67) Professor
Kribs wants to know how infants of different ages respond when left with a
stranger. The most efficient approach to explore this topic would be to conduct
a:
A) laboratory observation.
B) double-blind experiment.
C) survey.
D) single-blind experiment.
68) Professor
Turner wants to know if physiological changes occur when people watch violent
movies. The most appropriate method to study this would be:
A) survey.
B) laboratory observation.
C) naturalistic observation.
D) case study.
69) A
naturalistic observation would be the most appropriate method to investigate
which of these topics?
A) the math skills of students in Japan
as compared to those of Canadian students
B) physiological changes that occur
when people watch violent movies
C) the ways in which the games of boys
differ from the games of girls
D) the development of a male baby raised
as a female after a surgical error destroyed his penis
70) A
laboratory observation would be the most appropriate method to investigate
which of these topics?
A) physiological changes that occur when
people watch violent movies
B) the math skills of students in Japan
as compared to those of Canadian students
C) the ways in which the games of boys
differ from the games of girls
D) the development of a male baby raised
as a female after a surgical error destroyed his penis
