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Correlational research is useful because it reveals the strength and direction of a relationship, but it cannot establish:Read the answer and worked solution →A third factor that produces an apparent relationship between two variables is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →In a double-blind study, who is unaware of the group assignments?Read the answer and worked solution →The reason a control group is often given an inert treatment relates to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Before publication, a manuscript is evaluated by other experts in a process called:Read the answer and worked solution →Deductive reasoning in science starts from a generalization and then reaches:Read the answer and worked solution →An operational definition matters most because it lets other researchers:Read the answer and worked solution →Two variables can be correlated for which of these reasons?Read the answer and worked solution →Naturalistic observation is chosen when the researcher wants to know:Read the answer and worked solution →Random assignment supports causal conclusions because it makes the groups:Read the answer and worked solution →Peer reviewers send their feedback to the author and to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which research method is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Match each research termRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: research methodsRead the answer and worked solution →Shows cause, or only association?Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the method rulesRead the answer and worked solution →Getting information into the memory system is the process called:Read the answer and worked solution →Getting information out of memory and back into awareness is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Holding onto information once it has been encoded is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The three stages a memory passes through on the way to storage are sensory memory, long-term memory and:Read the answer and worked solution →Loss of long-term memory caused by disease or trauma is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Organising information into manageable bits to remember it better is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The process that moves information from short-term memory into long-term memory is:Read the answer and worked solution →Short-term memory takes information from sensory memory and sometimes connects it to something in:Read the answer and worked solution →Baddeley and Hitch proposed in 1974 that short-term memory has different forms, in a model called:Read the answer and worked solution →Memories learned outside awareness that cannot be consciously recalled are:Read the answer and worked solution →The distinction between explicit and implicit memory matters clinically because:Read the answer and worked solution →Implicit memory is demonstrated not by conscious recall but by:Read the answer and worked solution →In memory research, participants may be given an unexpected task of recall or:Read the answer and worked solution →Amnesia is specifically the loss of which kind of memory?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Correlational research is useful because it reveals the strength and direction of a relationship, but it cannot establish:

  1. Strength
  2. Causation
  3. Correlation
  4. Direction
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Correct answer: B. Causation

1. The limits of a method matter as much as what it can do. 2. Correlational research is useful because it allows us to discover the strength and direction of relationships that exist between two variables. 3. Correlation does not indicate causation. 4. Only an experiment with manipulation and random assignment supports a causal claim. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'Psychological Research', sections 2.1-2.4_

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A third factor that produces an apparent relationship between two variables is called a:

  1. Independent variable
  2. Operational variable
  3. Confounding variable
  4. Dependent variable
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Correct answer: C. Confounding variable

1. Two variables can move together without either causing the other. 2. While variables are sometimes correlated because one does cause the other, it could also be that some other factor is actually causing the systematic movement in our variables of interest. 3. That other factor is a confounding variable. 4. Random assignment in an experiment is the standard defence against it. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'Psychological Research', sections 2.1-2.4_

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In a double-blind study, who is unaware of the group assignments?

  1. Only the participants
  2. Only the researchers
  3. Only the journal editors
  4. Researchers and participants
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Correct answer: D. Researchers and participants

1. Expectations can shape both what a participant reports and what a researcher records. 2. In a double-blind study, both the researchers and the participants are blind to group assignments. 3. That removes expectation effects on both sides at once. 4. A single-blind design would leave one side informed. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'Psychological Research', sections 2.1-2.4_

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