Multiple Choice Questions on Research Methods - Psychology OCR

Which is a way of addressing the issue of demand characteristics in an experiment?

Which is the name of a type of interview?

What is the symbol for 'much less than'?

What reliability is it when theres consistency in results made by multiple different observers?

Which is an example of qualitative data?

Which of these would be an extraneous variable in this study?

How was one of the DVs measured in Grant et al.’s study into context-dependent memory?

What can be said about peoples general knowledge from this graph?

What is a weakness of using an overt observation?

What type of ist assumes that the data used are drawn from a normally distributed population?

In deductive reasoning, which comes first?

Which is a requirement of a parametric test?

Which inferential test should a researcher use to decide whether a correlation is significant?

What is the mode for the number of words recalled by the young group?

What is the range of this data set?

What fraction of divorced adults had a type B attachment?

Which two groups were compared in Chaney et al.’s (2004) study into operant conditioning?

What would be the appropriate inferential statistics test to use?

Which of the following would assess the internal reliability of a questionnaire?

What is meant by the term ‘socially desirable responses’ in psychological research?

Which of these is an ethical consideration when conducting psychological research?

What is the error in this Harvard style reference?

Which feature of science refers to the importance of being able to refute psychologist’s claim?

What is the name of the variable that is measured in an experiment?

What is the independent variable in this hypothesis?

What's the probability of a result occuring by chance if the significance level is p≤0.025?

Which is the best estimate of the correlation coefficient for the data?

Which will give the most representative sample?

What was the total percentage of ppts who were disobedient? (Didn't go up to 450V)

Which is a type of observation in psychological research?

What is the purpose of an Abstract in a practical report?

What would the value of 'n' in the formula below be?

Which group of people were included as participants for Maguire’s study?

What is the mean for the number of words recalled by the old group?

What is meant by induction in psychological research?

What type of questions featured int he questionnaires used by Chaney?

What is meant by criterion validity?

Using the data, which inventory has the highest level of external reliability?

Which one of the following is a feature of all experiments?

What is a weakness of using a mode as a measure of central tendency?

Which would give a researcher a random sample of 20 participants?

Chart shows data from a sample of 200. How many people said grey was there favourite colour?

Which is always included in an academic reference?

Which of these was a measure of the DV in the Casey et al study?

What is meant by event sampling?

Which statement suggests that a researcher is being accused of observer bias?

What type of distribution is shown in the graph displaying how people did in a gk quiz?

In Bandura’s study, the ppts were pre-tested to test aggression levels. What was the pupose?

Which is an example of secondary data?

Which is an example of interval level data?

What is a strength of using a questionnaire to carry out psychological research?

What was Milgram (1963) unable to control in his experiment into obedience?

Table shows data from Milgrams Study. What percentage of ppts gave a final shock of 315 Volts?