Unit 1: Research Methods Psychology

A Type One Error is when someone makes a false ________

A Quasi Experiment has a... (tick all that apply)

• Artifical Independent Variable

• Naturally Occuring Independent Variable

• Control of the Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

What is a unique weakness of opporunity sampling?

• Results may not generalise as participants have been recruited from the same place

• Participants may not give their consent to take part

• Only participatns that are confident will take part

• It is a time consuming sampling method

Write down as many extranous variables as you can

Answer explanation

You could have said:

- Demand Characteristics

- Order Effects

- Participant Variables

- Environmental Variables

- Social Desirability

And more!

What does this picture relate to?

• A Rating Scale

• An Extraneous Variable

• A Type of Experiment

• A Sampling Method

What does no correlation look like?

The level of difficulty of psychology is significantly different to the level of difficulty of biology. This is an example of a....

• 2 Tailed Hypothesis

• 1 Tailed Hypothesis

• Null Hypothesis

Draw a Positively Skewed Distribution

'Protection from Harm' comes under which ethical category?

• Respect

• Integrity

• Responsibility

• Competence

What does the symbol inbetween a and b mean?

• More Than

• Proportionally

• About Equal

• Different to