RESEARCH STUDY 14.3Dr. Grayson, a health psychologist, conducts a study examining whetherpeople eat more when they are exposed to pictures of food than whenthey are not exposed to pictures of food. She goes to a fast-foodrestaurant in downtown Chicago that has pictures of menu items on itsmenu board and measures the amount of food ordered during the lunchrush (11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.) on Tuesday. On Thursday, she does the samething but at a fast-food restaurant that does not have pictures on theirmenu board (about two blocks away from the first restaurant). She findsthat the restaurant with pictures of food sells more food than therestaurant that does not have pictures.Refer to Research Study 14.3 to answer the following four questions.134.Dr. Grayson decides to conduct her study again, but in the newstudy, she studies people at a sit-down restaurant, and shemanipulates whether the menu they use at the table has pictures ornot. This is known as which of the following?Answers:1.
Replication-plus-extension2.Conceptualreplication3.Direct replication4.Statistical replication
135.Dr. Grayson wants to conduct her study again, but this time shewants to conduct it in her laboratory. She wants people tofeel andactthe same way in her laboratory that they would when facingordering choices in an actual fast food restaurant. To this end, she musttry to enhance which of the following?Answer
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136.Because Dr. Grayson conducted her study in a field setting, which ofthe following is an advantage of her study?Answer
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137.Replication-plus-extensions can add any of the following EXCEPT:Answer
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s:A new situationalvariable2.A new independentvariable3.A new control variable4.A new participantvariable138.Which of the following is another term for ecological validity?Answers:1.Experimentalrealism2.Mundanerealism3.Cultural realism4.Everydayrealism139.________ is a subdiscipline of psychology that works primarily in thegeneralization mode.Answers:1.Cultural psychology2.Social psychology3.Clinical psychology4.Experimentalpsychology140.According to the textbook, what is the problem with WEIRDsamples?Answers:1.They are not very representative of theworld’s population.2.
They are not very easy to measure.3.They are not used frequently enough.4.They are not good for theory-testing mode.141.Psychologists use which of the following strategies to determine astudy’s replicability?Answers:1.Studyreframing2.Repeating thestudy3.Internal validity4.GeneralizingRESEARCH STUDY 14.2Cindy decides to conduct a meta-analysis examining the relationshipbetween daily stress and cardiovascular health for her senior psychologyresearch project.
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