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Quiz 3, Question 4 Identify the Artist, Title, and Date (3 points) Give a minimum of 2 items of significance about the piece. Be specific and detailed. (7 points)

Which types of claims are always made in generalization mode? Why is this the case?

Quiz 3, Question 1 Identify the Artist, Title, Date and Movement the work of art belongs to (4 points) Give a minimum of 2 items of significance about the piece. Be specific and detailed. (6 points)

Quiz 3, Question 2 Identify the Artist, Title, Date and Movement the work of art belongs to (4 points) Give a minimum of 2 items of significance about the piece. Be specific and detailed. (6 points)

Armand conducts a study for his research method class. He is curious as to whether watching romantic movies makes people more committed to their romantic relationship. He collects a sample of men in dating relationships and divides them into two groups. One group watches a five-minute clip of a movie in which the main characters are having a romantic first date. The second group watches a five-minute clip from the same movie in which the main characters break up. After the participants watch the movie clip, they are then asked to write a sentence about their relationship. Armand counts the number of uses of the words we and us as a measure of commitment. After conducting the study, he finds that there is not a statistically significant difference between his two groups.  Provide 2 reasons why Armand’s study may have resulted in null effects. 

When a scale designed to measure honesty actually measures a person’s honesty, the scale is said to have

Dr. Paddock is a counseling psychologist who is interested in decreasing adjustment issues in first-year college students. She is curious if having students create collages of their first few weeks of school and then mail them home will help students feel they have integrated their new life with their old and, as a result, will help them feel less homesick. She samples a group of 100 incoming college freshmen at her university and measures how homesick they are during the first week of school. During week 4 of school, she has them make the collage and send it home. During week 7 of school, she measures their homesickness again. She notices a significant reduction in the amount of homesickness from the pretest to the posttest and concludes that her treatment is effective.  What is a comparison group? What kind of comparison group could Dr. Paddock add to her study to address several threats to internal validity? (In other words, what would this comparison group do/not do?) Explain why this addition would help address threats to internal validity. 

A “share” represents ownership in a company; many are purchased as stocks.

Dr. Finkel is a social psychologist who studies romantic relationships. Several researchers have found that there is a link between income and marital satisfaction (e.g., Dakin & Wampler, 2012). Dr. Finkel is curious as to whether there is a causal link between the two variables, such that having a higher income causes higher levels of marital satisfaction. He is confident that he cannot reasonably or ethically manipulate people’s income level, so he decides to use a multivariate design. He is also curious as to whether there is a causal link between these two variables or if two other variables (number of arguments and life satisfaction) can explain the relationship. He measures his three variables in a sample of 124 married couples recruited from a local community center. Below are his results:  DV: Marital Satisfaction Variable Beta (b) Significance (p) Income .69 .03 Number of arguments –.73 .01 Life satisfaction .13 .81  Which of the following can be concluded based on the results of Dr. Finkel’s study? 

Dr. Cheong is a clinical psychologist who is curious about how people deal with natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes). His previous research suggests that there is a relationship between how much people feel their emotional well-being was affected by the natural disaster and their likelihood of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, he is curious as to whether the effect of emotional well-being occurs because people receive different levels of social support. He conducts a study in which he asks 174 men and women affected by Hurricane Sandy (2012) to report on how their well-being was affected by the hurricane, the social support felt after the storm, and the number of PTSD symptoms. Dr. Cheong finds support for his proposed relationship. However, in examining his data more closely, he finds that the relationship between emotional well-being and PTSD symptoms is stronger for men than for women.  Which of the following is the mediating variable in Dr. Cheong’s hypothesis?