WorksheetsPPG Summative Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which process of acquiring knowledge describes an idea is true because a professional says it is so?
Personal Experience
Empiricism
Authority
Tradition
Which process of acquiring knowledge describes an idea is true because it is measured?
Reasoning
Personal Experience
Authority
Empiricism
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.
True
False
In Psychology, _________________ are used as measurement of behavior.
Statistics
Personality Tests
Psychological Assessment
Behavioral Battery
A tenet of science which describes the property of an experiment as being reliable.
Falsifiability
Replicability
Parsimony
Empiricism
A conscious effort to forget an undesirable event in one's life.
Repression
Regression
Suppression
Amnesia
A phenomenon occurring when the responsibility of helping others is diffused among those who are present.
Bystander Effect
Mandela Effect
Assumption of Roles Effect
Theory of Responsibility
According to Harlow and Harlow's Monkey experiment result, how is attachment formed?
By seeing the first caregiver.
By providing comfort and warmth.
By providing food.
By providing rewards,
What is the main advantage of experiments over other research designs?
It is done in a laboratory setting.
Better control of extraneous variables.
Better knowledge of independent and dependent variables.
Better understanding of controlled variables.
An experiment done in the absence of compelling theory.
Critical Experiments
What If Experiments
Laboratory Experiments
Psychological Experiments
An experiment done to try to pit against each other two theories that make different predictions.
Critical Experiments
What If Experiments
Diverse Experiments
Two-Faced Experiments
Other variables outside the experimental frame is called____________.
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Control Variables
Extraneous Variables
None. Extraneous variables are considered part of the experimental frame.
Variables manipulated by the experimenter to come up with a result.
Independent Variables
Dependent Variables
Control Variables
Extraneous Variables
This has the potential to become the independent variable which is held constant during an experiment.
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Control Variable
Extraneous Variable
This variable is a response measurement to the manipulated variable.
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Control Variable
Extraneous Variable.
What is the main result of Brickner, Harkins, and Ostroms Experiment on Social Loafing?
Social loafing occurs when participants have significantly low self-confidence to get involved.
Social loafing occurs with low involvement tasks but not high involvement tasks.
Social loafing occurs with high involvement tasks but not low involvement tasks.
Social loafing is correlated to the level of self-confidence a participant has.
What is a between-subjects design?
Assigning participants to a particular level of an experiment.
Assigning participants in each level of an experiment.
What is a within-subjects design?
Assigning participants to a particular level of an experiment.
Assigning participants in each level of an experiment.
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?
Randomization
Matching
Sampling
Snowballing
Each person has an equal chance of being assigned to a particular group.
Randomization
Matching
Sampling
Snowballing
A pitfall in experiments wherein participants are accidentally influenced by the experimenter by giving slight cues and expectations.
Mandela Effect
Hawthorne Effect
Experimenter Effect
Double-Blind Experiment
A pitfall in experiments characterised by increase in productivity of participants upon the idea of being observed.
Mandela Effect
Hawthorne Effect
Experimenter Effect
Double-blind Experiment
A process of experiment where neither the the experimenter nor the research participant knows which participants are in which conditions.
Randomization
Matching
Double-blind
Automation
A process of obtaining data wherein any member of a population has an equal chance of being selected.
Double Bind
Random Selection
Random Assignment
Matching
A process of obtaining data wherein each participant in the experiment is randomly assigned to experimental treatments.
Double Blind
Random Selection
Random Assignment
Matching
