Psychology Research Methods Feb

What type of question allows you to freely write your response?

• Open

• Closed

A type of observation conducted in the participants' normal environment without interference from the researchers.

• Controlled observation

• Naturalistic observation

The __________ is the one manipulated by the researcher.

• DV

• Confounding Variable

• Controls

• IV

A school principal wanted to do some research into general literacy abilities of students from grades one to four at his school. He divided the students into year levels. He then randomly selected student names out of a hat to participate in his testing. This is an example of what type of sampling?

A ___________ is the group of individuals taking part in the research study.

• Population

• Sample

• Variable

• Control

In_____________ _______________you recruit participants that are more easily available.

• Self-selected sampling

• Opportunity sampling

• Random sampling

• Stratified sampling

___________ __________ _________ is used when the same group of participants is exposed to 2 or more conditions and the conditions are compared.

• Matched pair design

• Independent measures design

• Repeated measures design

• Correlational measures design

The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that the strict control of variables offers researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships.

• Experiments
• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational

The variable measured in an experiment is:

• The independent variable
• A null hypothesis
• The dependent variable
• An alternative hypothesis

An extraneous variable:

• is deliberately changed in an experiment
• is an uncontrolled variable that could affect the DV
• Is measured in an experiment
• Occurs only in field studies