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Research Methods 2

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT an experimental design?

a)

Quasi

b)

Matched Pairs

c)

Repeated Measures

d)

Independent groups

2.

Name a measure of central tendency

a)

Range

b)

Mean

c)

Standard deviation

d)

Interquartile range

3.

Which of the following is a one tailed correlation hypothesis

a)

There is a correlation between shoe size and IQ

b)

There is no correlation between fear of snakes and how many siblings you have

c)

Reaction times will be faster after drinking Cola than after drinking water

d)

There will be a positive correlation between hours studied and results on a test /100

4.

Name a technique that prevents order effects

a)

Double-blind test

b)

Counterbalancing

c)

Randomisation

d)

Single-blind study

5.

Which sampling method yields the most representative sample group?

a)

Opportunity

b)

Random

c)

Stratified

d)

Volunteer

6.

Which section of an academic report is written last but read first?

a)

Results section

b)

Methods section

c)

Discussion section

d)

Abstract

7.

The participant guesses the aim of an experiments and works hard to help prove the hypothesis is known as...?

a)

Social desirability bias

b)

Hawthorne effect

c)

Investigator effect

d)

Demand characteristics

8.

A correlation co-efficient reveals...?

a)

Whether the IV leads to a change in the DV

b)

The strength and direction of a correlation

c)

Whether the results of the study are significant

9.

R=0.96 suggests what?

a)

zero correlation

b)

weak positive correlation

c)

strong negative correlation

d)

strong positive correlation

10.

What type of graph would you use to illustrate a correlation?

a)

Scattergram

b)

Bar Chart

c)

Line graph

d)

Histogram

11.

Where Mean, Median and Mode are all equal, which type of distribution will be illustrated here?

a)

Normal

b)

Abnormal

c)

Positive skew

d)

Negative skew