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1
Which type of validity concerns the wider understanding of a concept that is measured?
Concurrent
Criterion
Face
Construct
2
What term refers to a study conducted to check for functionality of research methods?
Snapshot
Case study
Longitudinal
Pilot
3
Which is a principle of scientific enquiry?
Induction
Implication
intiation
information
4
A researcher could avoid fatigue effects by...
Using independent measures design
Using counterbalancing
Using repeated measures design
Using a control group
5
Which of the following would not be used in an observation?
Number Sampling
Time Sampling
Event Sampling
Coding scheme
6
What type of reliability can be checked by correlated ratings?
Inter-rater
Internal
External
7
Which of the following are strengths of repeated design?
No participant variables
Order/practice effects may occur
Larger sample needed
Smaller sample needed
8
Which best describes what a ‘type 1 error’ refers to?
use of the wrong inferential statistical test
null hypothesis incorrectly rejected
null hypothesis incorrectly accepted
use of wrong table of critical values
9
When would it be best to use the median rather than the mean?
when there are few scores similar to the rest
when there are lots of high scores
when there are lots of low scores
when there are a few scores much higher than the rest
10
Which of the following is not an ethical consideration?
Informed Consent
Withdrawl
Subjectivity
Deception
11
Which of the following does not appear in a reference using the Harvard system?
title of the research
location of the research
date of publication of the research
names of researchers
12
Which is a requirement of a parametric test?
standard deviations are not significantly different
data is at least ordinal level
sample is drawn from a skewed population
mean scores are significantly different
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What type of distribution is this?
Bimodal
Negatively Skewed
Normal
Positively skewed
14
Which type of validity is concerned with whether a measure appears to measure what it should?
Face
Criterion
Concurrent
Construct
15
What type of distribution is this?
Negatively Skewed
Bimodal
Positively skewed
Normal
16
What is the probability of a significant result occurring where significance level is p≤0.025?
25% or less
at least 97.5%
less than 2.5%
2.5% or less
17
Which statement demonstrates the researcher is being accused of observer bias?
her observation sheet had not been standardised
her perceptions were influenced by what she expected to see
she only observed one culture and not any others
she purposely manipulated results to match her hypothesis
18
Where would you find the calculations performed for an inferential statistical test?
Appendices
Discussion
Abstract
Results
19
Which two of these are weaknesses of an independent measures design?
Lack of control over environmental variables
Participant variables
Large sample needed
Order effects
20
Which type of validity concerns whether the measure will be able to predict future scores?
Concurrent
Construct
Face
Criterion
21
Which of these is the name of a referencing system used to cite academic research?
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
Cambridge
22
Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?
Mode
Mean
Standard deviation
Median
23
Which two terms refer to participants changing answers based on expected behaviours?
Social Desirability
Experimenter bias
Hawthorne Effect
Participant bias
24
What type of reliability can be checked used the test-retest method?
Inter-rater
External
Internal
25
What level of data and type of design are necessary to carry out a Binomial Signs test?
Ordinal and Repeated Measures
Ordinal and Independent Measures
Nominal and Repeated Measures
Nominal and Independent Measures
26
What type of reliability can be checked used the split-half method?
Inter-rater
Internal
External
27
Which type of validity focuses on whether a measure gets similar results to another measure?
Criterion
Concurrent
Face
Construct
28
Which is the best description of the correlation in this graph?
-0.7
+0.2
-0.2
+0.7
29
Anomalous data is data with no outliers
False
True
30
Which of the following are strengths of independent measures design?
No order/practice effects
More efficient as two groups can go at the same time
Order/practice effects may occur
Larger sample needed
31
What is a weakness of using a mode as a measure of central tendency?
it can generate a number not in the data set
it relies on a score occurring more than once
it is not suitable for nominal data
it is easily affected by outliers
32
Which of these descriptive statistics would it be possible to use with nominal data?
Range
Mean
Median
Mode
33
Which of these core studies is an example of the longitudinal research method?
Sperry
Bandura et al
Casey et al
Milgram
34
Using the data, which inventory has the highest level of external reliability?
Alpha
Beta
Delta
Gamma
35
Which two terms refer to a study that uses different age groups at the same point in time?
Longitudinal
Snapshot
Cross-cultural
Cross-sectional
