The most frequently used method in psychology to explore cause and effect relationships between variables is:

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Rusbult’s investment model for relationships, which factor is most significant for maintaining successful intimate relationships?

   A. Mutual support
   B. Commitment to relationship
   C. Being in love
   D. Mutual understanding

2. Community psychology, health psychology, and neuropsychology are considered which of the following in clinical psychology?

   A. Precursors
   B. Continuums
   C. Inferences
   D. Subspecialties

3. Psychologists who are interested in the perception of the motion, part-whole relationships and in how people judge size were identified with what school of psychology?

   A. psychoanalytic
   B. gestalt
   C. biological
   D. structural

4. The perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist is called ___________?

   A. the hindsight bias
   B. the false consensus effect
   C. an illusion of control
   D. illusory correlation

5. ______is speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors known as variables

   A. An operational definition
   B. A theory
   C. An hypothesis
   D. A correlation

6. Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the strongest relationship between two sets of variables?

   A. -0.98
   B. 0.90
   C. 0.00
   D. 1.20

7. Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the weakest relationship between two sets of variables?

   A. 0.08
   B. -0.29
   C. 0.48
   D. -1.00

8. The most helpful for revealing cause-and-effect relationship is __________?

   A. the survey
   B. the experiment
   C. correlations
   D. naturalistic observation

9. The prescription drug Thorazine used to treat persons with schizophrenia may cause side effects, one of them called tardive dyskinesia. What might a person suffering from this side effect display?

   A. involuntary movements of tongue and face
   B. no movement at all
   C. slow movements
   D. clapping of the hands repeatedly

10. To be confident that a cause-and-effect relationship exists, it is necessary to:

    A. engage in naturalistic observation
    B. develop a positive correlation
    C. perform a controlled experiment
    D. test for a negative correlation