Chapter 5: Identifying Good Measurement

Dr. Cash, another social psychologist, seeing the negative correlation between agreeableness and number of marriages in Dr. Nell’s study, says that the reason the two are correlated is because bad financial situations tend to make people disagreeable and look around for better opportunities (seek divorce), thus claiming that it is the financial context of the marriage, and not the personalities of those involved, that is the reason for the observed correlation.  His criticism concerns

Refer to Research Study 9.2 Correlation 4 is an example of which of the following types of correlations?

Chapter 1: Psychology is a Way of Thinking

People with politically conservative views prefer to watch news from Fox and ignore MSNBC, while people with more liberal views often prefer to view MSNBC and ignore Fox.  This kind of information gathering would be labeled what by Morling?

Chapter 3: Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research

Following implementation of a new city law, a restaurant chain began displaying the nutrition labels for their menu items.  The restaurant owner recorded sales of the 15 highest-calorie menu items on three occasions—once the month before the change in menu display, once the week of the change in menu display, and once the month after the change in menu display. The owner observed that the sale of the high-calorie menu items dropped, while overall sales remained steady. What type of design is this?

A course syllabus usually includes all of the following except:

When using a weekly planner, you should plan for some personal time for rest andrefreshment.

Everyone who has suffered loss experiences grief in the same way.