A. He incorrectly inferred correlation from causation
B. He incorrectly inferred causation from correlation
C. He failed to measure the gravitational pull to test his hypothesis
D. He has overlooked the placebo effect
Related Mcqs:
- Skinner maintained that reinforcement determines the acquisition of a response; Bandura maintains that reinforcement determines the_______of a response.
A. acquisition
B. development
C. performance
D. generalization - A researcher has children watch 30 minutes of violent television, and then counts the number of times they hit each other afterward in a one-hour play period as a measure of aggression. The researcher causes aggression, however this conclusion may be invalid because:
A. all children are prone to aggressive behavior
B. it is unethical to force children to watch violent television
C. there was no control group
D. aggression wasn’t operationally defined - Researcher is committed to_________________research:
A. Plan-oriented
B. Action-oriented
C. Subject-oriented
D. Sector-oriented - The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.
A. prevalence; prevalence
B. victim; criminal
C. incidence; prevalence
D. prevalence; incidence - In the British Crime survey, who had high levels of worry about burglary and violent crime?
A. Professionals
B. Women
C. Men
D. Those over 75 years- of age - A psychologist watches the rapid eye movements of sleeping subjects and wakes them to find they report that they were dreaming. She concludes that dreams are linked to rapid eye movement. this conclusion is based on:
A. pure speculation
B. direct observation
C. deduction from direct observation
D. prior prediction - Movement illusions such as the moon-cloud illusion, in which the moon appears to race from cloud to cloud, illustrate the role in visual perception played by ______________?
A. binocular disparity
B. a frame of reference
C. a linear perspective
D. bottom-up processing - What factor determines the sexual behavior of most species?
A. Emotions
B. Availability
C. Hormones
D. Thinking - A researcher wants to test the hypothesis that the number of bystanders affects the probability of helping behavior. She sets up three conditions, one with no bystanders, one with two bystanders and one with four bystanders. Which of the following is true?
A. there is one independent variable having three levels
B. there are three independent variables having one level each
C. there is one independent variable and three dependent variables
D. there is one independent variable having four levels - Jamil is looking at two objects he knows are the same size. However, it appears that one of the objects looks smaller than the other. Therefore, Jamil concludes the smaller objects is father away from him than the one that appears larger. Jamil is using what method to determine depth?
A. Linear perspective
B. Relative size
C. Interposition
D. Accommodation
