Critical Thinking Psychology G11

Evaluation requires

• Discussing strengths and limitations

• Looking at the validity of a study

• Looking at the reliability of a study

• Looking at the negative aspects of a study

Which of these is not one of the IB's five general strategies for evaluating research?

• Research Design and Methodologies

• Triangulation

• Assumptions and bias

• Contradictory Evidence/ Alternative Theories

• Extraneous Variables

Which of these is NOT a demand characteristic?

• Expectancy Effect

• Screw you effect

• Extraneous Variables

Demand characteristics definition:

• Influence that extraneous variables can have on the data

• Influence that the researcher can have on the data

• Is the influence that participants can have on the data

• Influence that methodology can have on the data

What are the three steps to evaluate a study?

• link; explain; identify

• Identify; link; explain

• explain; identify; link

Which of these is a representative sample of SSIS:

• Boys aged 3-18

• International secondary students

• Expats

• International students aged 3-18

Which refers to judging experiences solely on how they were at their peak and how they ended

• Peak-End rule

• Expectancy Effect

• Social Desirability Effect

• Conformity effects

Which of these forms of triangulation increases the reliability of data

• Time Triangulation

• Data Triangulation

• Method triangulation

• Researcher Triangulation

Which of the following is not a method of self-reporting?

• Interview

• Survey

• Field Notes

• Questionnaire

Which of the following is not a limitation of self-reporting data?

• Social desirability effect

• Availability heuristic

• Conformity effects

• None of the above