Psychology Midterm Quiz

The way in which you state your _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ leads directly to your thesis statement. To do this, you need to narrow the topic you want to investigate.

This type of data is numerical and it is usually analysed using statistics or some other number-based method.

• Qualitative

• Case study

• Quantitative

• All of the options are correct

This type of research/data tends to answer questions such as: "How do people feel about…?", "What are people´s opinion of…?"

• Case Study

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Both, quantitative and qualitative

This section of a research report includes: background information, purpose of the study and thesis statement.

• Methodology

• Abstract

• Introduction

• Results

"I am an investigator and I decide to select a particular teenager as the research subject who is a heavy user of social media. Observe them over a period of one month in which they are prevented from accessing social media. I may informally interview the teenager on several occasions…" WHICH RESEARCH METHOD DOES THIS EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATE?

• Case Study

• Human behavior

• Quantitative Research

• Qualitative Research

To support any research question in an academic study, we need ________.

These are the two general approaches when gathering evidence in psychology:

• Quantitative and qualitative research

• Deception Methods and samples

• Background research and experimentation

• Use of animals as a model of human behavior and case studies

This statement refers to one of the ethical rules in investigation: "Subjects of psychological research should be told of the purpose of the research, and must give explicit permission to be studied."

• Do no harm

• Privacy

• Post -research feedback

• Informed consent

To ensure that ethics rules are followed during psychological research, most universities and research institutions have an:

• Investigator

• Educator

• Ethics committee

• Experimentation leader

It refers to the ability of remembering things.

• Cognition

• Memory

• Intelligence

• Recognition