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Research Methods Study Guide 1. Psychologists personal values: A) have little influence on how their experiments are conducted. B) do not influence the interpretation of experimental results because of the use of statistical techniques that guard against subjective bias. C) can bias both scientific observation and interpretation of data. D) have little influence on investigative methods but a significant effect on interpretation. 2. Which statement about the ethics of experimentation with people and animals is false? A) Only a small percentage of animal experiments use shock. B) Allegations that psychologists routinely subject animals to pain, starvation, and other inhumane conditions have been proven untrue. C) The American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Society have set strict guidelines for the care and treatment of human and animal subjects. D) Animals are used as subjects in almost 25 percent of all psychology experiments. 3. A friend majoring in anthropology is critical of psychological research because it often ignores the influence of culture on thoughts and actions. You point out that: A) there is very little evidence that cultural diversity has a significant effect on specific behaviors and attitudes. B) most researchers assign subjects to experimental and control conditions in such a way as to fairly represent the cultural diversity of the population under study. C) it is impossible for psychologists to control for every possible variable that might influence research participants. D) even when specific thoughts and actions vary across cultures, as they often do, the underlying processes are much the same. 4. Your best friend criticizes psychological research for being artificial and having no relevance to behavior in real life. In defense of psychologys use of laboratory experiments you point out that: A) psychologists make every attempt to avoid artificiality by setting up experiments that closely simulate real