1. Explain science's main assumption and describe the
goals of the scientific enterprise in psychology.
2. Describe psychology's relation to other sciences and
outline the steps in a scientific investigation.
3. Discuss the advantages of the scientific approach.
4. Describe the experimental method of research,
explaining independent and dependent variables, experimental and
control groups, and extraneous variables.
5. Describe the Featured Study on hypnosis and eyewitness
memory.
6. Explain the major advantages and disadvantages of the
experimental method.
7. Explain how experimental and descriptive research
are different and discuss three descriptive research methods.
8. Explain the major advantages and disadvantages of
descriptive/ correctional research methods.
9. Describe three measures of central tendency and one
measure of variability.
10. Distinguish between positive and negative correlation
and explain how the size of a correlation coefficient relates to
the strength of an association.
11. Explain how correlations relate to prediction and
causation.
12. Explain the logic of hypothesis testing, the meaning
of statistical significance, and the purpose of meta-analysis.
13. Describe four common flaws in research, such as
sampling bias, placebo effects, distortions in self-report,
demand characteristics, and experimenter bias.
14. Discuss the pros and cons of deception in research
with human subjects.
15. Discuss the controversy about the use of animals as
research subjects.
16. Explain how this chapter highlighted two of the
text's unifying themes.
17. Describe the Psychological Abstracts and explain
how its author and subject indexes can be used to locate
information.
18. Describe the standard organization of journal articles
reporting on psychological research.
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