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WorksheetsField Methods in Psychology Diagnostic Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3mins
A psychologist conducted a study investigating reaction times of a group of young and old people to press a key on a keyboard in response to a specific stimuli (e.g. a smiley face). The mean reaction time for young people was 0.7245 seconds. What is this written to two decimal places?
0.7
0.72
0.73
0.74
A psychologist conducted a survey assessing beliefs in the paranormal with a sample of 144 people. 25% of people said they believe in ghosts. How many people is this?
25
36
40
72
Which of these is not a measure of dispersion?
mean
range
standard deviation
variance
What comes first in an academic reference?
Abstract
name of journal
surname of researcher
title of investigation
What type of experiment is conducted in a real life setting?
field
lab
natural
quasi
What does the alternative hypothesis in an experiment state?
there will be an effect of the IV on the DV
there will not be an effect of the IV on the DV
there will be a relationship between the IV and the DV
there will not be a relationship between the IV and the DV
Which group in an experiment is exposed to the independent variable?
Control Group
Experimental Group
Participant Group
All groups
Mr Bembol is researching whether doing practice questions improves his students' Psychology understanding. An operationalised DV for this study could be:
psychology understanding
number of practice questions completed
number of psychology classes attended
mean score on a psychology exam
Mr Jimothy is researching whether gender affects memory recall. A possible operationalised IV for this study is:
mean number of words correctly recalled off a list
words recalled off a list
gender (male or female)
memory recall (good or bad)
Mr Krol is a Geography teacher at a high school. He is interested in finding out whether Year 9 students or Year 10 students are faster at learning the names of capital cities. One class at each year level is shown a presentation with each of the selected 20 countries and their capital cities on separate slides. Students are instructed to silently memorise the name of each country's capital city. At the end of the presentation, each student is then provided with a list of countries only, in the same order as presented. Students are asked to write the name of the correct capital city beside the name of as many countries as possible. Mr Krol then records how many correct pairs of capital cities and countries each student gets, and calculates the mean for each class.
Which one of the following best describes the type of research conducted by Mr Krol?
observational study
cross-sectional study
repeated measures design
matched participants design
Method of intense study of just one individual:
Naturalistic Observation
Experimental Study
Case Study
Survey
In an experiment, the _________________ variable is tested by the researcher to observe its effect(s) on the _________________ variable.
A.independent; dependent
B.first; second
C.dependent; independent
D.research; results
In experimental studies which group receives nothing? In other words, they do not get the variable that is under study.
Experimental group
Control group
The main purpose of ethical guidelines for research in Psychology is to
A.minimise the problems that participants cause for researchers.
B.guarantee that the experimentation runs without problems.
C.ensure that any results published will not be challenged.
D.protect the welfare and rights of the participants.
Case studies, Grounded theory, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Action research are features of which research methodology:
Quantitative
Qualitative
both
neither
An interview schedule which is adapted depending on the replies of the respondents is a feature of:
semi structured interviews
unstructured interviews
structured interviews
none of these
No pre-planned schedule is a feature of
Unstructured interviews
Semi-structured interviews
Structured interviews
All of these
