Question: Which of the following is true of applied research?

Answer: It is often guided by the findings of basic research.

Question: A general rule to help detect pseudoscience is to:

Answer: be highly skeptical of scientific assertions that rely on vague evidence.

Question: Identify a true statement about basic and applied research.

Answer: The distinction between basic and applied research is a convenient typology but is probably more accurately viewed as a continuum.

Question: According to Cook and Campbell, what are the three types of evidence used to identify the cause of a behavior?

Answer: Temporal precedence, covariation of cause and effect, and alternative explanations

Question: Accepting the information in a professor’s lecture without considering the credibility of the information exemplifies a belief in _____.

Answer: authority

Question: Determining the cause of behavior is an important goal of behavioral science because:

Answer: behavior cannot be altered unless the cause is known.

Question: The statement, “High school seniors with higher SAT scores will have higher GPAs in college” is an example of _____ behavior.

Answer: predicting

Question: The four goals of scientific research on behavior are to:

Answer: describe, predict, explain, and determine the causes of behavior.

Question: Which of the following is most likely to be a problem associated with intuition?

Answer: Drawing erroneous conclusions based on cognitive or motivational biases

Question: In the case of knowing that watching television violence is a predictor of actual aggression, which of the following evidence accentuates the need to know that aggression followed after television viewing occurred?

Answer: Temporal precedence