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PPG Summative Test

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which process of acquiring knowledge describes an idea is true because a professional says it is so?

a)

Personal Experience

b)

Empiricism

c)

Authority

d)

Tradition

2.

Which process of acquiring knowledge describes an idea is true because it is measured?

a)

Reasoning

b)

Personal Experience

c)

Authority

d)

Empiricism

3.

In determinism, it is believed that behaviors are pre-termined and caused by unusual events. A good example of determinism is when a veteran developed PTSD after being deployed in IRAQ.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

In Psychology, _________________ are used as measurement of behavior.

a)

Statistics

b)

Personality Tests

c)

Psychological Assessment

d)

Behavioral Battery

5.

A tenet of science which describes the property of an experiment as being reliable.

a)

Falsifiability

b)

Replicability

c)

Parsimony

d)

Empiricism

6.

A conscious effort to forget an undesirable event in one's life.

a)

Repression

b)

Regression

c)

Suppression

d)

Amnesia

7.

A phenomenon occurring when the responsibility of helping others is diffused among those who are present.

a)

Bystander Effect

b)

Mandela Effect

c)

Assumption of Roles Effect

d)

Theory of Responsibility

8.

According to Harlow and Harlow's Monkey experiment result, how is attachment formed?

a)

By seeing the first caregiver.

b)

By providing comfort and warmth.

c)

By providing food.

d)

By providing rewards,

9.

What is the main advantage of experiments over other research designs?

a)

It is done in a laboratory setting.

b)

Better control of extraneous variables.

c)

Better knowledge of independent and dependent variables.

d)

Better understanding of controlled variables.

10.

An experiment done in the absence of compelling theory.

a)

Critical Experiments

b)

What If Experiments

c)

Laboratory Experiments

d)

Psychological Experiments

11.

An experiment done to try to pit against each other two theories that make different predictions.

a)

Critical Experiments

b)

What If Experiments

c)

Diverse Experiments

d)

Two-Faced Experiments

12.

Other variables outside the experimental frame is called____________.

a)

Independent Variable

b)

Dependent Variable

c)

Control Variables

d)

Extraneous Variables

e)

None. Extraneous variables are considered part of the experimental frame.

13.

Variables manipulated by the experimenter to come up with a result.

a)

Independent Variables

b)

Dependent Variables

c)

Control Variables

d)

Extraneous Variables

14.

This has the potential to become the independent variable which is held constant during an experiment.

a)

Independent Variable

b)

Dependent Variable

c)

Control Variable

d)

Extraneous Variable

15.

This variable is a response measurement to the manipulated variable.

a)

Independent Variable

b)

Dependent Variable

c)

Control Variable

d)

Extraneous Variable.

16.

What is the main result of Brickner, Harkins, and Ostroms Experiment on Social Loafing?

a)

Social loafing occurs when participants have significantly low self-confidence to get involved.

b)

Social loafing occurs with low involvement tasks but not high involvement tasks.

c)

Social loafing occurs with high involvement tasks but not low involvement tasks.

d)

Social loafing is correlated to the level of self-confidence a participant has.

17.

What is a between-subjects design?

a)

Assigning participants to a particular level of an experiment.

b)

Assigning participants in each level of an experiment.

18.

What is a within-subjects design?

a)

Assigning participants to a particular level of an experiment.

b)

Assigning participants in each level of an experiment.

19.

A member of each pair is randomly assigned to one group and the other member to the second group. What do you call this technique?

a)

Randomization

b)

Matching

c)

Sampling

d)

Snowballing

20.

Each person has an equal chance of being assigned to a particular group.

a)

Randomization

b)

Matching

c)

Sampling

d)

Snowballing

21.

A pitfall in experiments wherein participants are accidentally influenced by the experimenter by giving slight cues and expectations.

a)

Mandela Effect

b)

Hawthorne Effect

c)

Experimenter Effect

d)

Double-Blind Experiment

22.

A pitfall in experiments characterised by increase in productivity of participants upon the idea of being observed.

a)

Mandela Effect

b)

Hawthorne Effect

c)

Experimenter Effect

d)

Double-blind Experiment

23.

A process of experiment where neither the the experimenter nor the research participant knows which participants are in which conditions.

a)

Randomization

b)

Matching

c)

Double-blind

d)

Automation

24.

A process of obtaining data wherein any member of a population has an equal chance of being selected.

a)

Double Bind

b)

Random Selection

c)

Random Assignment

d)

Matching

25.

A process of obtaining data wherein each participant in the experiment is randomly assigned to experimental treatments.

a)

Double Blind

b)

Random Selection

c)

Random Assignment

d)

Matching