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?

The Better Drug research group is developing a new drug that treats anxiety. They have given the drug to all their patients, and all of them have experienced a decrease in anxiety symptoms. Although this is interesting, his experience is limited because he does not have:

Use the information from the Valverde scenario for this question. Based on this study, Dr. Valverde can make which of the following claims?

Two ways intuition can be biased are:

A good example of basic research is:

To evaluate how well a study supports a frequency claim, which are the two most important validities to consider?

Use the information from the Gutierrez scenario for this question. Why should Jaden NOT interrogate the internal validity of the study?

Use the information from the McManaman scenario for this question. Dr. McManaman asks his research mentor, who also studies pornography addiction, to review his new measure. His supervisor says that McManaman’s measure appears to test all the components she normally sees in people suffering from addiction to pornography. Given this information, Dr. McManaman’s measure has support for which of the following?

Use the following scenario to answer the next four questions: Dr. Deci reads about speculation that aggression in females is caused by higher exposure to testosterone while in utero. She decided to test this by examining twins. She recorded testosterone levels while in the womb using both female-female twin pairs and female-male twin pairs.  Dr. Deci then assessed aggression in all of the females at ages 10 and 18. Dr. Deci found no relationship between testosterone exposure and aggression levels.