PSYC 110-00___, Section ___, Class Exercise 2 Name & Student ID: ______________________________________ VIDEO: Discovering Psychology: Understanding Research Camosun College Library: Call #: BF 121 D572 NO. 2 INSTRUCTIONS. As you watch the video, try to answer the following true-false questions. Circle the correct answer. 1. An hypothesis is a prediction about how two or more factors are likely to be related. T/F 2. In an experiment, the control group receives the treatment. T / F 3. In medicine, one might use a sugar pill to test for the placebo effect. T / F 4. Even the mere believable suggestion that a treatment will work is sufficient to make about 50% of sick people feel better. T / F 5. In a double-blind procedure, only the researcher giving out treatment knows which subject is in which condition. T / F 6. The essence of an experiment is systematic manipulation of one or more factors while holding constant all the others that might be important. T / F 7. Research shows that children’s grades on achievement tests go down as the number of hours watching TV goes up; we can conclude that watching TV causes bad grades . T / F 8. Hite’s controversial report about women’s attitudes toward sex and marriage was flawed because she randomly sampled respondents from the population. T / F 9. A polygraph is more likely to detect that you are lying if you believe that it is always accurate than if you believe that it can be deceived. T / F 10. Given enough support, scientific conclusions shift from tentative to absolute. T / F