I understand that exams in this class are individual, and that conferring with other students on them is a violations of the University’s ethical standards. I also understand that using the Internet during exams to access external material (not found in Canvas or lecture notes) is prohibited.

Why is it important to be a knowledgeable consumer of research?

Use the following scenario to answer the next five questions: Dr. Gutierrez is teaching a developmental psychology class this semester. In class one day, they got to discussing a research study on the impact of nutrition on cognitive performance in elementary school students. Michael questions the study, saying, “I don’t know. How can you get an overall measure of a child’s nutrition?” Jaden also questions the study, asking, “Which schools did they include? I am curious if they included urban, suburban, and rural school students.” Claudio also is curious about the study, asking, “I wonder how strong the relationship is between nutrition and cognitive performance. Could you predict one from the other?”

Sara just read a research article for her annotated bibliography assignment. Where should she go if she wants to look for a list of the study’s hypotheses or research questions?

Kibo is reading an empirical journal article and wants to know whether the authors used the heart rate or electrodermal activity to measure a stress response. In which section would he find this information?

Choose the best example of an association claim.

Use the following scenario to answer the next five questions: Dr. McManaman is a clinical psychologist researching addiction to pornography. Pornography addiction is defined as being unable to resist impulses to very pornography. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pornography addiction. The measure has 15 questions, and it takes 20 minutes to complete.

Use the information from the Dr. Deci scenario for this question. In this study, “aggression is caused by higher exposure to testosterone in utero” was the _________.

At a research conference, you attend a session on getting research articles published. The speaker, Dr. Higuain, is an “expert” on submitting manuscripts for publication. Which of the following should make you less skeptical about his advice?

Dr. Dembele finds a relation between stress and sleep. Specifically, having a higher number of hours of sleep is associated with lower stress scores. This is an example of which type of association?