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Solution Manual For Psychology From Inquiry To Understanding 4Th Edition Lilienfeld Lynn Namy 0134552512 9780134552514 Full Chapter PDF
Solution Manual For Psychology From Inquiry To Understanding 4Th Edition Lilienfeld Lynn Namy 0134552512 9780134552514 Full Chapter PDF
CHAPTER-AT-A-GLANCE
Chapter-At-A-Glance 46
LECTURE GUIDE
The Beauty and Necessity of Good Research Design 48
Scientific Methodology: A Toolbox of Skills 49
Ethical Issues in Research Design
An Experimental Example
Classroom Activities,
Demonstrations, and
Exercises
Experimental Design
Naturalistic Observation
Understanding Correlations
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
Research
Small Samples
Writing Assignments
Observation and Inference
Handouts
Identifying the Parts of an
Experiment
Handouts
Small Samples
Handouts
Give the Doctor Some Advice
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Chapter 2: Research Methods
LECTURE GUIDE
I. THE BEAUTY AND NECESSITY OF GOOD RESEARCH DESIGN (Text p. 44)
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II. SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY: A TOOLBOX OF SKILLS (Text, p. 45)
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C. Case Study Designs: Getting to Know You
1. One of the simplest designs in the psychologist’s investigative toolbox is the
case study.
2. Case studies can provide “existence proofs” that phenomena can occur
and can enable us to generate hypotheses for controlled studies.
3. Caution should be used when coming to conclusions based on case studies;
the plural of “anecdote” is not “fact.”
D. Self-Report Measures and Surveys: Asking People about Themselves and Others
1. Random Selection: The Key to Generalizability
a. Random selection is a survey approach in which every person in the
population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate. This
is essential for generalizing survey findings to a larger population.
i. Random selection should not be confused with random
assignment, one of the two ingredients in an experiment.
Random selection deals with how we choose
participants, random assignment deals with how we
assign participants after they’ve been selected.
b. The Hite Report (1987), a survey with surprising results about women
and relationships, is an example of the misleading effect of
nonrandom selection. Only 4.5 percent of those contacted responded
to the Hite Report; a simultaneous Harris poll using random selection
reported nearly opposite findings.
2. Evaluating Measures
a. Reliability—consistency of measurement
i. Test-retest reliability—a measurement yielding
similar scores within a group of people over time.
ii. Interrater reliability—the extent to which different people
who conduct an interview or make behavioral observations
agree on characteristics.
b. Validity—the extent to which a measure assesses what it claims
to measure.
c. Reliability and validity: The differences
i. Reliability is necessary for validity, but it is not sufficient
for validity.
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Self-Report Measures
a. Self-report measures: questionnaires assessing a variety of
characteristics
i. Surveys: measure opinions, attitudes.
b. Pros are that measures are easy to administer; direct (self) assessment
of person’s state.
c. Cons are that accuracy is skewed for certain groups (narcissists);
potential for dishonesty.
i. Response sets—tendencies to distort answers to items
appear more positive, for example, than they actually are.
4. Rating Data: How Do They Rate
a. Ratings of others are subject to halo effect and horns effect in
which positive or negative ratings on one characteristic influence
ratings of other characteristics
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E. Correlational Designs
1. Identifying When a Design Is Correlational
a. Correlation design—research design that examines the extent to
which variables are associated.
2. Correlations: A Beginner’s Guide
a. Positive correlations indicate that as one variable increases,
so does the other.
b. Negative correlations indicate as one variable increases, the other
decreases.
c. Zero correlations indicate no relation between variables.
d. Correlations range from –1.00 to +1.00; both of these correlation
ratings indicate a perfect relationship; a correlation of 0 indicates no
relationship between two variables; the strength of the association
between two variables is indicated by the absolute value of the
correlation; and the positive or negative sign indicates the direction of
the association (Figure 2.4, text p. 56).
3. The Scatterplot
a. A scatterplot is a grouping of points on a two-dimensional graph in
which each dot represents a single person’s data (Figure 2.4, text p.
56).
4. Illusory Correlation
a. Correlations are illusory when we perceive an association between
two things that does not exist, such as an association between the
full moon and strange occurrences.
b. We tend to pay too much attention to memorable events, while not
attending to non-memorable events.
c. We can minimize tendencies to make illusory correlations by
forcing ourselves to keep track of disconfirming instances.
5. Correlation versus Causation: Jumping the Gun
a. The most common mistake we make when interpreting correlational
data is to draw causal conclusions from them.
b. Correlational data does allow us to make predictions, but conclusions
from this type of research are limited because we can’t be sure why
these predicted relationships exist.
c. The news media frequently falls prey to the correlation vs.
causation fallacy (Figure 2.5, text p. 59).
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F. Experimental Designs
1. Experimental designs permit us to make cause-and-effect inferences.
2. Unlike correlational designs, researchers conducting experimental designs
manipulate variables to see whether these manipulations produce differences
in participants’ behavior.
3. What Makes a Study an Experiment: Two Components
a. An experiment is a research design characterized by random
assignment of participants to conditions and manipulation of an
independent variable.
i. Random Assignment—experimenter randomly sorts
participants into two groups.
a. The experimental group receives the
manipulation.
b. The control group does not receive the
manipulation.
ii. Manipulation of an Independent Variable
a. Independent variable—the treatment or
intervention that the experimenter “manipulates”
or varies.
b. Dependent variable—variable that an
experimenter measures to see whether
the manipulation has an effect.
c. When we define our independent and dependent
variables for the purposes of a study, it is called
an operational definition—a working definition of
what it being measured.
4. Confounds: Sources of False Conclusions
a. A confounding variable is any variable that differs between the
experimental and control groups other than the independent variable.
i. e.g., patients who received an antidepressant also received
psychotherapy not received by the control group; “sessions of
psychotherapy” is a confound.
5. Cause and Effect: Permission to Infer
a. Experiments are distinct because they permit cause-and-
effect inferences.
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6. Pitfalls in Experimental Design
a. The Placebo Effect—an improvement resulting from the mere
expectation of improvement. Our expectations can become reality.
i. Participants should be blind to the condition to which they
have been assigned. If not, expectations will differ.
b. The Nocebo Effect—Similar to the placebo effect, the nocebo
effect results from the mere expectation of harm.
i. More than two-thirds of students reported headaches
when led to expect them after exposure to a nonexistent
“electric current.”
c. The Experimenter Expectancy Effect—phenomena in
which researcher’s hypotheses lead them to unintentionally
bias a study outcome.
i. It is essential that experiments be conducted in a double-
blind design in which neither researchers nor subjects know
who is in the experimental or control group.
ii. In a classic example of experimenter expectancy, Clever Hans
the horse appeared to know mathematics; in fact, Clever Hans
was detecting subtle cues coming from his questioners.
d. Demand Characteristics—cues that participants pick up from a
study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher’s
hypotheses.
i. To minimize the potential for demand characteristics,
researchers can disguise the purpose of the study.
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3. Informed Consent—informing research participants of what is involved
in a study before asking them to participate.
a. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) now require informed consent from
participants.
b. In Milgram’s study of obedience (1963), deception was used to induce
participants to deliver “shocks” to a learner.
c. The American Psychological Association states that deception is
justified only when it is necessary and the scientific knowledge
outweighs the cost (Table 2.3, text p. 69).
4. Debriefing: Educating Participants
a. In debriefing, participants are informed about the purpose of the
study. C. Ethical Issues in Animal Research
1. Animal research, particularly invasive animal research, generates a
great deal of anger and discomfort.
2. About 7–8 percent of published research in psychology relies on
animals, usually rodents and birds.
3. Some opponents argue that the deaths of 20 million animals per year aren’t
worth the benefits.
4. Supporters argue that animal research has directly benefited humans,
especially in the area of brain function and medication effectiveness.
5. Nevertheless, animal research has yielded important insights about brain
and behavior. Animal researchers must weigh carefully the potential scientific
gains of their work against the costs in death and suffering they produce.
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3. Variability (dispersion)
a. Measures of variability describe how loosely or tightly bunched
the scores are.
b. The range is the difference between the highest and lowest score.
(Figure 2.7, text p. 72).
i. But it’s key to note that data sets can display very different
distribution of scores across the range.
c. The standard deviation takes into account how far each data point is
from the mean.
C. Inferential Statistics: Testing Hypotheses
1. Inferential statistics—these statistics allow us to determine whether we can
generalize our sample findings to a larger population, or whether they just
occurred by chance alone.
2. Statistical Significance
a. A statistically significant finding is one that would occur by chance
alone less than 5 percent of the time; if it would occur by chance that
rarely, we conclude that the finding we observed in our sample is
probably real.
b. In psychology journals, a statistically significant finding is described
using the phrase “p < .05”.
3. Practical Significance
a. A finding may be statistically significant, or unlikely to have occurred
by chance, yet be so small that the findings do not translate into
meaningful consequences in the real world.
b. All other things being equal, larger sample sizes will increase the
likelihood that a finding will be statistically significant, but will not have
an effect on practical significance.
D. How People Lie with Statistics
1. If the distribution of data is skewed, reporting the mean as the measure of
central tendency can give a false picture of the nature of the majority of the
scores.
2. A truncated line graph in which the y axis starts at the lowest possible
score, not 0, can create the illusion that groups of scores are very different
from each other when real differences are tiny (Figure 2.8, text p. 74).
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V. EVALUATING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH (Text p. 75)
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CHAPTER 2
Learning Objectives
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CHAPTER 2
Key Terms
Blind (text p. 63) Internal Validity (text p. 48)
Case Study (text p. 48) Mean (text p. 71)
Central Tendency (text p. 71) Median (text p. 71)
Control Group (text p. 61) Mode (text p. 71)
Correlational Design (text p. 54) Naturalistic Observation (text p. 47)
Demand Characteristics (text p. 66) Operational Definition (text p. 61)
Dependent Variable (text p. 61) Placebo Effect (text p. 63)
Descriptive Statistics (text p. 71) Prefrontal Lobotomy (text p. 44)
Double-Blind (text p. 65) Random Assignment (text p. 61)
Existence Proof (text p. 49) Random Selection (text p. 50)
Experiment (text p. 60) Range (text p. 72)
Experimenter Expectancy Effect (text p. 65) Reliability (text p. 51)
Experimental Group (text p. 61) Response Set (text p. 53)
External Validity (text p. 48) Scatterplot (text p. 55)
Heuristic (text p. 46) Standard Deviation (text p. 72)
Illusory Correlation (text p. 57) Statistics (text p. 70)
Independent Variable (text p. 61) Validity (text p. 51)
Inferential Statistics (text p. 73) Variability (text p. 72)
Informed Consent (text p. 68)
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