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Research Methods

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This is a quiz about A Level Psychology Research Methods

1

What does the experimenter measure in an experiment?

Confounding variable
Dependent variable
Independent variable

2

What term is used for a significant change in the dominant unifying theory within a scientific discipline?

Paradigm
Objectivity
Paradigm shift
Falsifiability

3

What is falsifiability?

That it must be non-scientific first
It has been proved false at least once
That the findings are false
That a theory cannot be scientific unless it can be disproved

4

If it measures what it's supposed to?

Validity
Internal validity
Face validity
External validity

5

What is co-current validity?

If it is generalisable to other times and contexts
If the change is due to the iv or another factor
If it uses multiple sources of evidence
Comparing a measurement to a pre-existing one to see if it has a valid correlation (0.8)

6

What does operationalising mean?

Defining variables in terms of how they can be measured
A cue that will reveal the purpose of the study
Balancing the control group
Making a change in the experiment

7

Stating there is no difference between conditions?

One tailed
Alternate hypothesis
Null hypothesis
Quasi- experiment

8

Strength of repeated measures?

Demand characteristics
No order effects
Easy to replicate
Participant variables are controlled

9

What is a natural experiment?

The pre-existing IV would have changed without the experimenter
Where the IV just exists
A highly controlled environment
The IV is manipulated in the natural setting

10

Which is a limitation of quasi-experiments?

They are hard to replicate
They take a long time
Confounding variables
Low mundane realism

11

What does the British Psychological Society do?

Allocate funding for research
Send people to jail
Make a quasi-legal document of ethical issues
Tell people to become a psychologist

12

Which of the following is NOT an ethical issue?

Informed consent
Confidentiality
Protection from harm
Deception
Research bias

13

What approach should ethical committees have?

Money-ethical approach
Systematic approach
Evaluative approach
Cost-benefit approach

14

What is a stratified sample?

A selection technique reflecting the proportion of each strata
Everyone has an equal chance of being selected
Every nth person from the sampling frame
Who is there at the time

15

In what type of observation is the participant unaware they are being watched?

Non-participant
Covert
Overt
Participant

16

Which of the following is not a limitation of naturalistic sampling?

Ethical issues
Control
Replication

17

What type of observation may lack objectivity?

Controlled
Non-participant
Covert
Participant

18

What is the limitation of structured observations?

They are easy to collect
They are too simplistic
They are not as rich in detail
They're hard to analyse

19

What is a behavioural category?

Components of targeted behaviour broken down
Units of emotions
How often a behaviour occurs

20

A type of sampling better suited to represent behaviour as a whole?

Time sampling
Covert
Event sampling
Overt

21

When one variable increases the other decreases?

Zero correlation
Negative correlation
Positive correlation

22

A significant correlation coefficient?

0.5
0.4
0.8
0.99

23

NOT a strength of correlational data?

A starting point for research
Economical
Can use secondary research
Rich in detail

24

Show categories and differences?

Scattergrams
Bar charts
Histograms

25

Probability that the result is due to chance?

Less than or equal to 0.5%
Less than 5%
Less than or equal to 5%
More than 5%

26

Left peak. Mode, medium and then mean?

Positive skew
Normal distribution
Negative skew

27

Measures of central tendency are at the peak?

Positive distribution
Normal distribution
Negative distribution

28

Use the medium and range?

Ordinal data
Interval data
Nominal data

29

Type one error?

The answer is just wrong
The alternate hypothesis is wrongly rejected (a false negative)
The null hypothesis is wrongly rejected (a false positive)

30

Ordered data that lacks equal units?

Ordinal data
Interval data
Nominal data

31

Which of the following is NOT a criteria for the parametric test?

Interval level data
Using independent groups
Normal distribution
Equal spread

32

Wilcoxon does NOT need

Testing for a difference
Repeated measures
A lower calculated value for significance
Ordinal data
Independent groups

33

Which is NOT a function of a peer review?

Create a community
Allocate research funding
Suggest improvements
Validate quality

34

Which is NOT a problem with peer reviews?

Burying ground breaking research
Anonymity
The file draw problem
Lack of funding

35

Which is not a stage of content analysis (indirectly studying communication)?

Comparing data to test validity/reliability
Look into the history of the communication
Coding into meaningful units
Thematic analysis

36

Watching the same event on separate occasions to see if the results are similar

Inter-rater reliability
Face validity
Internal validity
Test-retest

37

Features of a scientific report

Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing
Introduction, abstract, method, results, discussion and conclusion
Abstract, intro, method, discussion, results and conclusion

Comments (1)

Jiji.ng (65747)

1168 days ago

I was expecting to see topics covered in the Psychology, i saw nothing about regression to the mean, statistcal significance, like idek.

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