What would be an example of improving psychology practice?

NHS funding for an effective new form of cognitive behavioural therapy

Ecological validity is

The extent to which a finding can be applied beyond the research setting

Which organisation provides useful data for informing government policy?

ONS (Office for National Statistics)

Operationalisation is

Defining variables so they can be easily tested

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1
Which of these is NOT a type of experiment?
Natural
Field
Questionnaire
Laboratory
2
Which of these is NOT a sampling technique
Random
Laboratory
Volunteer
Stratified
3
Which is the variable you change
Extraneous
Dependent
Confounding
Independent
4
What is 'a systematic consideration of what other researchers have written or said about your chosen research topic'
Article discussion
Article abstract
Operationalisation
Literature review
5
Developing a theory and then testing it by using experiments is
Deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
6
Which of these is NOT a type of research process
Ethics
Observation
Lab experiment
Survey
7
Which are the variables that we can't really control and can lead to a lack of validity
Confounding
Independent
Dependent
Extraneous
8
What would be an example of improving psychology practice?
Finding out that there has been an increase in depression
Doing more research on effective advertising
Monitoring the level of anti-social behaviour in a district of Reading
NHS funding for an effective new form of cognitive behavioural therapy
9
Ecological validity is
The extent to which a finding can be applied beyond the research setting
The extent to which a finding can be applied to other time periods
The extent to which there is agreement between two or more observers
The extent to which a test looks like it tests what it claims it will test
10
Which organisation provides useful data for informing government policy?
Ofsted
RSPCA
ONS (Office for National Statistics)
NHS (National Health Service)
11
Operationalisation is
A special class of extraneous variables
Carrying out complex surgery
Defining variables so they can be easily tested
Writing a hypothesis
12
Which is the variable you measure
Dependent
Confounding
Extraneous
Independent
13
Good research aims to collect
lots of numbers
interviews with different people
interesting ideas
empirical evidence
14
Repeating an observation or study to confirm the original finding is
A waste of time
Replication
Validity
Empirical

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