Julian creates a survey asking participants first to report how happy they are in their marriage and then second to report how happy they are in their life. His advisor, Dr. Fuentes, recommends that he create a second version of the survey that reverses the order of these questions. Why is Julian’s advisor recommending this?

Please acknowledge the following: NO study aids were used in my testing environment including but not limited to phones, tablets, alternative devices, headphones, books, notes, or study partners. No app of any kind was used.  No artifical intelligence (AI) of any kind was used.  No online chatting during the exam occurrred between myself and another classmate.  I will not discuss the questions or the answers to the exam with any other person.

A social psychologist conducted a study on martial satisfaction.  In their study, the researcher found a negative relationship between the criticizing their partner and their score on a known marital satisfaction survey.  Because one of these measures was a behavior, which type of validity would be most important for the researcher to assess?

Before using the measure in her study, Dr. Rodriquez gives the measure to a group of participants on the first day of the semester and again on the last day of the semester. Dr. Rodriquez is examining the scatterplot of the data she collected and notices that the dots are very close to forming a diagonal line. This indicates which of the following?

Dr. Morimoto is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. He assigns half his participants to play a video game for 5 minutes and the other half to play for 7 minutes. He finds that there is no effect of playing the game and being aggressive. What might be to blame for this null effect?

READ THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO TO ANSWER THE NEXT 1 QUESTION.  In previous studies, Dr. Schulenberg has established that finding meaning in one’s everyday work activities can lead to greater success in the workplace (e.g., productivity, creativity). He is curious as to whether this can happen in the college classroom. Specifically, he is curious whether finding meaning in one’s classroom experience can lead to greater academic performance. In the spring semester, he has his teaching assistant randomly assign half the class to write a paragraph each class period about how the material has meaning for their lives (meaning group). The other half writes a paragraph about what they did to prepare for class (preparation group). He does not know which of his students are writing which paragraph, and the students are not aware they are responding to different writing assignments. To measure academic performance, he gives the students a midterm essay exam and a final exam.

For his research methods class project, Hiro is studying the effect of pet ownership on stress levels. Although a lot of research has been done on dog and cat owners, not much is known about other pets.  As a result, Hiro decides to study bird owners. Which of the following would demonstrate a snowball sampling technique?

If a sample is biased, then it is  ___________________ the population of interest.

The rest of this exam is the cumulative section covering information from the first 2 exams.  Each question is worth 1 point.  

A psychologist is working with the parents of four children who exhibit violent behaviors toward each other. The parents have been instructed to record the number of these behaviors each child exhibits in the predinner hour for 1 week. The parents then begin using a positive reinforcement technique to shape the behavior of the youngest child while continuing to record violent behaviors. The recording continues and the technique is used on one additional child each week. By the end of 6 weeks, there is a significant decrease in violent behaviors for each of the children. Which type of design is this?