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WorksheetsPSY 319: Quiz 1Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 15mins
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because it has always been true"
Tradition/tenacity
Intuition
Authority
Personal Experience
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because I feel it is true"
Tradition/tenacity
Intuition
Authority
Personal Experience
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because an 'expert' says it is true"
Tradition/tenacity
Intuition
Authority
Personal Experience
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because I have experienced it"
Tradition/tenacity
Intuition
Authority
Personal Experience
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because it is logically derived"
Reasoning
Empiricism
How we acquire knowledge about the world:
Select the term that best matches the following phrase -
"I believe it is true because I measured it"
Reasoning
Empiricism
Select the objective of science:
Describe
Explain
Predict
Control
Interfere
The Tenets of Science:
Which statement best describes determinism?
Working within the natural world and assuming events and behaviours have natural causes
Based on real evidence
A single finding may be due to chance so tests should be conducted multiple times
Hypotheses and theories must be testable in a way that can be shown to be false
Preference for the simplest answer
The Tenets of Science:
Which statement best describes empiricism?
Working within the natural world and assuming events and behaviours have natural causes
Based on real evidence
A single finding may be due to chance so tests should be conducted multiple times
Hypotheses and theories must be testable in a way that can be shown to be false
Preference for the simplest answer
The Tenets of Science:
Which statement best describes replicability?
Working within the natural world and assuming events and behaviours have natural causes
Based on real evidence
A single finding may be due to chance so tests should be conducted multiple times
Hypotheses and theories must be testable in a way that can be shown to be false
Preference for the simplest answer
The Tenets of Science:
Which statement best describes falsifiability?
Working within the natural world and assuming events and behaviours have natural causes
Based on real evidence
A single finding may be due to chance so tests should be conducted multiple times
Hypotheses and theories must be testable in a way that can be shown to be false
Preference for the simplest answer
The Tenets of Science:
Which statement best describes parsimony?
Working within the natural world and assuming events and behaviours have natural causes
Based on real evidence
A single finding may be due to chance so tests should be conducted multiple times
Hypotheses and theories must be testable in a way that can be shown to be false
Preference for the simplest answer
What is a formal statement of how concepts are related?
A theory
A hypothesis
What is a prediction of how concepts are related?
A theory
A hypothesis
__________ are the general category of ideas that are represented by our variables
Theories
Concepts
Hypotheses
Approaches to Research:
___________ involves describing a population of measurements. The focus of __________ is to answer why questions.
Explanatory research, descriptive research
Descriptive research, explanatory research
Approaches to Research:
___________ describes differences in the kind or quality of behaviour. __________ measures differences in the amount of behaviour.
Qualitative research, quantitative research
Quantitative research, qualitative research
Approaches to Research:
___________ is answering a question to satisfy a question/curiosity. __________ research is when the researcher is trying to use the knowledge to benefit humankind.
Applied research, basic research
Basic research, applied research
Approaches to Research:
_____________ happens at the same time using different people of different ages. ______________ happens over years, uses the same people as they age
Cross-sectional research, longitudinal research
Longitudinal research, cross-sectional research
Approaches to Research:
__________ is observations in the natural environment, it is less artificial but less control over variables. ___________ happens in a controlled setting, but may not generalize well.
Laboratory research, field research
Field research, laboratory research
________ _________ is the process of publishing scientific studies that allow other experts to evaluate and critique new research findings.
(a)
__________ __________ is a description of a variable based on how it will be measured
(a)
What is a variable that a participant already has? It is not under the control of the experimenter.
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Participant variable
Select all that are usual subsections in the Methods:
Participants
Measurements
Procedure
Analysis
Discussion
Descriptive statistics....
describes data. It breaks down the sample and describes that characteristics of the data sets.
studies a sample of the data. it is what you can infer from the data. Tells us what happened from the data. Making comparison between groups
Inferential statistics....
describes data. It breaks down the sample and describes that characteristics of the data sets.
studies a sample of the data. it is what you can infer from the data. Tells us what happened from the data. Making comparison between groups
