WorksheetsPY3
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What concerns whether the investigator has tested what they intended to test?
a)
Internal validity
b)
Eternal validity
c)
Concurrent validity
2.
What concerns whether the results of the investigation can be generalised to other situations or people?
a)
Internal validity
b)
External validity
c)
Concurrent validity
3.
What is sometimes referred to as ecological validity?
a)
Internal validity
b)
External validity
c)
Concurrent validity
4.
What concerns whether the results of an investigation correlate with a measure that has previously been validated?
a)
Internal validity
b)
External validity
c)
Concurrent validity
5.
What is a variable that could affect the validity of an experiment?
a)
Confounding variable
b)
Extraneous variable
6.
What is a variable that did affect the validity of an experiment?
a)
Confounding variable
b)
Extraneous variable
7.
Which of the effects of these extraneous variables can be reduced by standardising procedures?
a)
Situational variables
b)
Participant variables
c)
Demand characteristics
d)
Investigator effects
8.
Which of the effects of these extraneous variables can dealt with by using repeated measures or matched pairs experimental designs?
a)
Situational variables
b)
Participant variables
c)
Demand characteristics
d)
Investigator effects
9.
Which of the these extraneous variables are caused by cues that affect the behaviour of the participants?
a)
Situational variables
b)
Participant variables
c)
Demand characteristics
d)
Investigator effects
10.
Which of the these extraneous variables are caused by, for example, leading questions?
a)
Situational variables
b)
Participant variables
c)
Demand characteristics
d)
Investigator effects
11.
Which location can be high in internal validity, but low in external validity?
a)
Laboratory
b)
Field
12.
Which location can be high in external validity, but low in internal validity?
a)
Laboratory
b)
Field
13.
Which type of reliability can be affected if the questions within a questionnaire are not consistent with each other?
a)
Internal reliability
b)
External reliability
14.
Which type of reliability can be checked by the split half method?
a)
Internal reliability
b)
External reliability
15.
Which type of reliability can be checked by the test-retest method?
a)
Internal reliability
b)
External reliability
16.
Which type of reliability is a measure of consistency over different occasions?
a)
Internal reliability
b)
External reliability
17.
Which is the variable that is changed in an experiment
a)
Independent variable
b)
Dependent variable
c)
Controlled variable
d)
Extraneous variable
18.
Which is the variable that is measured in an experiment
a)
Independent variable
b)
Dependent variable
c)
Controlled variable
d)
Extraneous variable
19.
What type of experiment do these disadvantages apply to?
1. Poor control of variables.
2. Operationalisation of the IV may lead to demand characteristics.
1. Poor control of variables.
2. Operationalisation of the IV may lead to demand characteristics.
a)
Laboratory Experiment
b)
Field Experiment
c)
Natural Experiment
20.
What type of experiment cannot demonstrate causal relationships?
a)
Laboratory Experiment
b)
Field Experiment
c)
Natural Experiment
21.
What type of data do closed questions generate?
a)
Quantitative
b)
Qualitative
22.
What type of data is difficult to analyse?
a)
Quantitative
b)
Qualitative
23.
What type of research method is used to look at media such as TV or magazine adverts?
a)
Correlational analysis
b)
Observational studies
c)
Content analysis
d)
Case studies
24.
What type of research method looks for links between 2 variables?
a)
Correlational analysis
b)
Observational studies
c)
Content analysis
d)
Case studies
25.
What type of research method would use behavioural checklists?
a)
Correlational analysis
b)
Observational studies
c)
Content analysis
d)
Case studies
26.
What type of research method is a detailed study of an individual, institution or event?
a)
Correlational analysis
b)
Observational studies
c)
Content analysis
d)
Case studies
27.
What is a statement of what a researcher intends to study?
a)
Aim
b)
Directional hypothesis
c)
Non directional hypothesis
d)
Null hypothesis
28.
What is a statement that an IV will significantly affect a DV?
a)
Aim
b)
Directional hypothesis
c)
Non directional hypothesis
d)
Null hypothesis
29.
What is a statement that an IV will significantly affect a DV?
a)
Aim
b)
Directional hypothesis
c)
Non directional hypothesis
d)
Null hypothesis
30.
What is a statement that an IV will not significantly affect a DV?
a)
Aim
b)
Directional hypothesis
c)
Non directional hypothesis
d)
Null hypothesis
31.
What is a statement that predicts the effect or increasing or decreasing the IV on the DV?
a)
Aim
b)
Directional hypothesis
c)
Non directional hypothesis
d)
Null hypothesis
32.
Which type of experimental design can be affected by practice and boredom?
a)
Repeated measures
b)
Independent groups
c)
Matched pairs
33.
Which type of experimental design involves randomly selected separate groups being used on each condition of the IV?
a)
Repeated measures
b)
Independent groups
c)
Matched pairs
34.
Which type of experimental design allocates participants to groups on key participant variables such as age or intelligence?
a)
Repeated measures
b)
Independent groups
c)
Matched pairs
35.
Which type of experimental is most likely to suffer from participants guessing the aim of the study?
a)
Repeated measures
b)
Independent groups
c)
Matched pairs
36.
In which sampling technique does every member of the target population have an equal chance of being selected?
a)
Random sampling
b)
Opportunity sampling
c)
Systematic sampling
d)
Stratified / Quota sampling
37.
In which sampling technique is every nth member of the target population selected?
a)
Random sampling
b)
Opportunity sampling
c)
Systematic sampling
d)
Stratified / Quota sampling
38.
In which sampling technique is whoever is available at the time and in the right place selected?
a)
Random sampling
b)
Opportunity sampling
c)
Systematic sampling
d)
Stratified / Quota sampling
39.
In which sampling technique is each sub-group of a target population fairly represented?
a)
Random sampling
b)
Opportunity sampling
c)
Systematic sampling
d)
Stratified / Quota sampling
40.
Which method of observing behaviour records what behaviour is happening at specific times?
a)
Event sampling
b)
Time sampling
41.
Which measure of central tendency is skewed by extreme values?
a)
Mean
b)
Median
c)
Mode
42.
Which measure of central tendency can be used on nominal data?
a)
Mean
b)
Median
c)
Mode
43.
Which measure of central tendency is calculated by arranging the data into an ordered list?
a)
Mean
b)
Median
c)
Mode
44.
Which measure of dispersal is the easiest to calculate
a)
Range
b)
Standard deviation
45.
Which measure of dispersal is not skewed by extreme values
a)
Range
b)
Standard deviation
46.
Which measure of dispersal contains 67% of the variance
a)
Range
b)
Standard deviation
47.
What confidence level is looked for in Psychology?
a)
100%
b)
95%
c)
50%
d)
75%
48.
What type of data is when the data is in separate categories like male and female?
a)
Nominal
b)
Ordinal
c)
Interval
d)
Ratio
49.
What type of data is ordered, but the intervals are not the same size?
a)
Nominal
b)
Ordinal
c)
Interval
d)
Ratio
50.
What type of data has units, but no true zero?
a)
Nominal
b)
Ordinal
c)
Interval
d)
Ratio
51.
What type of data has units and a true zero?
a)
Nominal
b)
Ordinal
c)
Interval
d)
Ratio
52.
Which type of error is generated when a null hypothesis is rejected that is actually true?
a)
Type 1
b)
Type 2
53.
Which statistical test is used on nominal data generated by an independent measures research method to test for significant differences? The observed value must be greater than or equal to the published value for the differences to be significant.
a)
Chi squared test
b)
Sign test
c)
Mann- Whitney U test
d)
Willcoxon T test
54.
Which statistical test is used on ordinal data (such as people placing foods in order of “like” generated by an independent measures research method? The observed value must be less than or equal to the published value for the differences to be significant.
a)
Chi squared test
b)
Sign test
c)
Mann- Whitney U test
d)
Willcoxon T test
55.
Which statistical test is used on nominal data generated by a repeated measures or matched pairs research method to test for significant differences. The observed value must be less than or equal to the published value for the differences to be significant.
a)
Chi squared test
b)
Sign test
c)
Mann- Whitney U test
d)
Willcoxon T test
56.
Which statistical test can be used on ordinal, interval and ratio data generated by a repeated measures or matched pairs research method. The observed value must be less than or equal to the published value for the differences to be significant.
a)
Chi squared test
b)
Sign test
c)
Mann- Whitney U test
d)
Willcoxon T test
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