A Cognitive Psychologist Wants to Learn About How a Person

question 84

Multiple Choice

A cognitive psychologist wants to learn about how a person thinks when solving a problem. What is the primary difficulty with simply asking people to describe their own thought process?

• A) Research participants usually lie when describing their thought processes.
• B) People think differently in a psychology laboratory than they do in "real life."
• C) People are not always aware of how they solve particular problems.
• D) Problem solving always involves thinking without words.

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Definitions:

Untreated Population

A segment of the population that has not received a particular intervention, treatment, or exposure, used as a comparison group in studies and experiments.

Treatment Group

A group of subjects in an experimental study that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to a control group that does not.

Placebo Group

A control group in an experiment that receives a sham or inert treatment, allowing researchers to measure the effect of the actual treatment against no treatment.

Significance Level

A threshold set by the researcher before an experiment to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis, typically denoted by alpha (α).