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WorksheetsPsych Headstart Post-test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
Psychology is....
The study and treatment of mental illness
Studying the shape of the head to indicate character
The scientific study of human behaviour and mental processes
A pseudoscience based on comparison of birth dates and tides
Which of the following is not quantitative data?
Height
Likert scale
Heart rate
Focus group responses
Which one of these is a mental process?
Whistling a tune in the street
Feeling excited about a party
Posting a photo on Instagram
Experiencing tooth pain
Why is Psychology a science?
Because it uses scientific method
Because it uses and collects empirical evidence
Because psychologists always try to replicate experiments
All of these
Psychologists cannot __________?
Run cognitive behaviour therapy
Prescribe medicine
Run counselling sessions
Work with people with depression
What is the 'Stroop' effect?
A delay between what you see and saying it
A feeling of discomfort when someone stands next to you
A person is less likely to offer help if others are present
An angry reaction caused by personal irritation
Which type of psychologist works in the legal and criminal justice setting?
Clinical Psychologist
Counselling Psychologist
Forensic Psychologist
Sports Psychologist
To qualify as a Psychologist usually takes how many years of study?
6
3
7
13
The following is the correct way to write a Bibliographical reference...
Grivas, J (2017). Psychology VCE Units 1 and 2. 8th Edition.
Grivas, J (2017). Psychology VCE Units 1 and 2. 8th Edition.
John Grivas. Psychology VCE Units 1 and 2. 8th Edition.
Grivas, J (2017). Psychology VCE Units 1 and 2. 8th Edition.
Which is best for displaying 'discrete' data?
Histogram
Bar Chart
Daydreaming occurs more when a person is engaged in a simple task than when they are performing a complex task. From this scenario what is the Dependent Variable?
Task complexity
The participants
Occurrence of daydreaming
The time of day
Marijuana use impairs performance on a memory task. From this scenario what is the Independant Variable?
Use of Marijuana
Performance on memory task
Memory task
The time of day
A variable other than the IV that can cause a change in the DV is known as....
A confounding variable
An extraneous variable
A dependant variable
An independant variable
Any variable associated with the experimental situation itself that may affect the results.
Experimenter variables
Participant variables
Situational variables
Confounding variables
A variable other than the IV that has had an unwanted affect on the DV
Situational variable
Extraneous variable
Dependant variable
Confounding variable
What does a research hypothesis try to do?
Provide specific procedures that a researcher must follow when conducting a study
State whether the results of a study apply to the whole population
Predict the results to be obtained from a study
Summarise the aim of a study
What is the best definition of a ‘Control Group’?
Participants are exposed to the experimental condition
The entire group of research interest from which a sample is drawn
A small group of research participants from the population
Participants are not exposed to the IV
A researcher uses an experiment to test a new drug to cure the common cold. Group A participants take a pill that contains a small amount of the drug and Group B take a pill containing no drug. Both groups are told the pills are designed to cure the common cold and a large number of those in Group B report an improvement in their condition. What would be the best explanation for this?
Experimenter effect
Placebo effect
Order effect
Chance
A researcher wants to study why some people willingly work weekends or night shifts and if there is a male/ female bias. She draws up a questionnaire and surveys shoppers. Her sampling procedure is best described as _____ .
Random
Convenience
Stratified
Situational
Stratified Random Sampling is the best method of achieving results from a sample group that reflect a population…. but what is its major disadvantage?
It isn’t truly representative of the population
It is unbiased
It is time consuming and costly
It doesn’t allow for demographic, age or gender differences
What is a key advantage of ‘Experimental research’ method?
Designs are repeatable and results can be checked and verified
Can create artificial situations that may not represent real-life situations
Reactions of test subjects may not be true indicators of behaviours in a non-experimental environment
Human error can play a key role e.g. Experimenter effect
An observational study involves collecting data by carefully watching and recording behaviour as it occurs. What is a major disadvantage of this research method?
Doesn’t require cooperation of participants (they don’t know their involved)
Allows us to study certain types of behaviour
The natural setting usually means that participants will act normally
Difficult to determine cause of the behaviour that is being observed
The middle score (or mid-point) of a set of scores.
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
It is essential that all psychological research follows a strong ethical standards. Which of the following is not the right of any participant in such research?
Confidentiality
Debriefing
Withdrawal rights
Informed consent
Payment
Dr Tran conducted an independent-groups design experiment on a technique for remembering nonsense syllables.
The experimental group used Dr Tran’s learning technique and had a greater recall of nonsense syllables than the control group.
In Dr Tran’s experiment, independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV) were
IV: participant characteristics; DV: learning technique.
IV: participant characteristics; DV: number of nonsense syllables correctly recalled.
IV: learning technique; DV: number of nonsense syllables correctly recalled.
IV: number of nonsense syllables correctly recalled; DV: learning technique.
