Psychological Research quiz 1

Ethical issues in psychological research are:

• Relatively unimportant.

• Less important than the need to collect data.

• The number 1 priority.

• Not covered in this book.

For ethical reasons, IB students should never:

• Study people under 16 years of age.

• Observe people in public.

• Obtain informed consent from participants.

• Reveal their aims to the participants.

People who provide the data in research are called:

• Dissidents.

• Insignificants.

• Participants.

• Researchers.

An alternative name for an aim is a:

• Guess.

• Hypothesis.

• Prediction.

• Research question.

The procedures of a study should always be:

• Stabilised.

• Standardised.

• Generalised.

• Harmonised.

Debriefing participants means:

• Speaking to them after the data collection is over.

• Telling participants the true aim of the study.

• Ensuring that participants are in the same state as at the start of the study.

• All of the above.

In writing a conclusion, you:

• Apply results to people in general.

• Explain the standardised procedures.

• Draw a bar chart.

• Explain the research aim.

Standardised instructions are:

• An important part of debriefing.

• Different for each participant.

• Part of the research procedure.

• All of the above.

A good way to summarise data is with:

• Disruptive statistics.

• Predictive statistics.

• Descriptive statistics.

• Narrative statistics.

If you use two or more observers, you need to make sure you have:

• Inter-observer compatibility.

• Inter-observer excitability.

• Inter-observer sociability.

• Inter-observer reliability.