WorksheetsPsychology
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is one disadvantage of a survey?
a)
Provides information about behavior that can’t be observed directly
b)
Yields a lot of information
c)
Provides a good way to generate hypotheses
d)
Can provide information about many people since it’s cheap and easy to do
2.
What is one advantage of a case study?
a)
Sometimes relies only on self-report data, which can be misleading
b)
Doesn’t allow conclusions about cause-and-effect relationships
c)
Provides a good way to generate hypotheses
d)
Can be subjective and thus may yield biased results
3.
Laboratory observation enables use of sophisticated equipment for measuring and recording __________.
a)
hypotheses
b)
behavior
c)
natural behavior
d)
validity
4.
True or False: The most important feature of naturalistic observation is that researchers do not disturb the participants or their environment?
a)
Both
b)
No...Just No!
c)
True
d)
False
5.
One of the fastest ways to collect descriptive data is ________?
a)
Correlational Method
b)
Case Study
c)
Debriefing
d)
Survey Method
6.
A test does not give information about which of the following characteristics?
a)
personality traits
b)
emotional states
c)
aptitudes
d)
placebo
7.
Suppose a researcher wants to study the effect of drug A on subjects’ alertness. He divides 100 subjects into two groups of 50, an experimental group and a control group. He dissolves drug A in saline solution and injects it into all the subjects in the experimental group. He then gives all the control group subjects an injection of only saline solution.
What is the independent variable?
What is the independent variable?
a)
drug A
b)
saline solution
c)
the subjects
d)
the needles
8.
What is the Placebo Effect?
a)
the effect on a subject receiving a fake drug or treatment
b)
occurs when researchers’ preferences or expectations influence the outcome of their research
c)
the tendency of some research subjects to describe themselves in socially approved ways
d)
Jared
9.
True or False: Natural observations only happen in the wild?
a)
False
b)
I DON'T KNOW!
c)
Both
d)
True
10.
Case studies typically involve collecting a vast amount of data on one particular ________?
a)
Person
b)
Group
c)
Person or Group
d)
Animal
11.
Which of the following IS an example of a survey?
a)
Administered on Paper
b)
Face-To-Face Interview
c)
Via Telephone
d)
All Of The Above
12.
True or False: The correlation method examines relationships among variables and assists researchers in making predictions.
a)
Maybe
b)
True
c)
Both
d)
False
13.
The experimental method manipulates a variable.
a)
True
b)
False
c)
Neither
d)
Both
14.
The experimental method does not reveal cause-and-effect relationships.
a)
True
b)
Neither
c)
Both
d)
False
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