A. private funding can never be obtained
B. APA Ethical Review committees often do not approve of the research techniques.
C. there is a certain amount of artificiality attached to it
D. subjects are difficult to find for research projects
Related Mcqs:
- Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 1 & 3 - In experiments, placing subjects in experimental groups such that each subject has an equal probability of ending up in any experimental group is referred to as:
A. random forecasting
B. fandom selection
C. random placement
D. random assignment - The experimental procedure in which both the experimenter and subject are unaware of who is in the experimental and who is in the control group is referred to as the:
A. single-blind procedure
B. the type of experiment is not possible
C. stereotaxic procedure
D. double-blind procedure - An advantage of the experimental method in psychology is:
A. the identification of a cause-and-effect relationship
B. similar to the correlational method that causality is determined
C. that the surroundings are always similar to real life experiences
D. that it is an informal way to investigate behavior - In the simplest experimental method, ‘E’ manipulates __________?
A. One Variable
B. Two Variables
C. Three Variables
D. None of these - Which of the following is NOT a widely used research method in modern experimental psychology?
A. The true experimental method
B. The quasi-experimental method
C. The introspective method
D. The case study method - Which of the following best describes a double-blind experimental procedure?
A. All subjects get the experimental procedure
B. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo, which they receive is known only to the experimenter
C. Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is not known to subjects or experimenter
D. All subjects get the control procedure - Which of the following could serve as an experimental hypothesis?
A. Although 25% of U.S drivers say that they use the seatbelts in their cars only 14% really do
B. a case history of multiple personality appeared to be caused by traumatic childhood experiences
C. College women who are anxious tend to want to be together
D. As the temperature increases the number of hit batters in baseball increases - The control group and the experimental group in an experiment are treated exactly the same except for the:
A. dependent variable
B. independent variable
C. extraneous variables
D. replication variables - Who is the father of Experimental Psychology?
A. Wilhelm Wundt
B. Sigmund Freud
C. C.G. Jung
D. E.B. Titchener
