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6. What is a repeated measures design?

  • When participants only take take part in one setting
  • When all the the participants take part in both settings
  • When the experiment is repeated to insure reliability
  • When you give every instruction twice

7. What is a longitudinal study?

  • A study that studies the same people over a long period of time
  • A questionnaire
  • A study that takes a long time
  • A study that uses people of different ages

8. An advantage of a questionnaire is that people are unlikely to lie.

  • False
  • True

9. How do you calculate a mean?

  • The value given most often
  • Find the middle result
  • Add up all the values, discounting any anomolous results and divide it by the number of values
  • Add up all the values, including any anomolous results and divide it by the number of values

10. The range is a good way to see an overview of results as it is not affected by anomolous results.

  • False
  • True

11. What would a graph showing positive correlation look like?

  • A downwards diagonal line
  • An upwards diagonal line
  • A horizontal line
  • A vertical line

12. What is observer bias?

  • When the observer only researches one culture but applies their results to the whole world
  • When observer interprets the result to fit their hypothesis
  • When an observer takes part in the observation
  • When the observer falls asleep

13. Participants should be debriefed after taking part in an experiment

  • True
  • False

14. What is a random sample?

  • When you pick your best friends for an experiment
  • When everyone has an equal chance of being chosen for an experiment
  • When people volunteer to take part
  • When you go and ask random people to take part

15. A lab experiment takes place in the real world

  • False
  • True

16. Which of these isn't an ethical issue?

  • Not using the elderly
  • Confidentiallity
  • Deceit
  • Right to withdraw

17. Which isn't an advantage of an opportunity sample?

  • It is easy
  • It is unbiased
  • It is quick
  • It cheap

18. Qualitative data is data in word format

  • True
  • False

19. What is inter-rater reliability

  • When observers from different companies observe
  • When the observers are of different ages
  • When all observers interpret behaviour the same way
  • When all observers observe together

20. Which of these isn't a self report method?

  • Observation
  • Unstructured interview
  • Questionnaire
  • Structured Interview