Research Methods Multiple Choice Questions

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The point of IPA is to describe a participant's account of an experience. True or false?
True
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Analysis in IPA shares many similar steps to Thematic Analysis. True or false?
True
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Which is NOT correct? Compared to quantitative research, IPA has...
Lower ecological validity
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One of the key features of Discursive Psychology is to analyse the action-orientated nature of language. True or false?
True
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Why are sample sizes often small in Discursive Psychology?
Linguistic patterns can be found from only a few people
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Thematic Analysis aims to generate a theory. True or false?
False
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At the end of your Thematic Analysis you should aim to have about 3-4 themes. True or false?
True
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One of the key points to both Thematic analysis and Grounded Theory is staying 'in touch with' and 'close to' the data. True of false?
True
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Karl Popper is responsible for...?
Falsification
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'All experience is historically and social contingent' is claimed by what type of research?
Social constructionism
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What is the main quality of a good theory?
A theory that has survived attempts at falsification
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The positivist-realist tradition advocates the following approach to research:
It is important to state one's hypothesis clearly before conducting research
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A hypothesis is a statement of...
The relationship expected to hold between two or more variables
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Cross-sectional studies are those which...
Measure the relationship between variables assessed at one point in time in a sample of individuals
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Categorical measures are forms of measurement classified as:
Measures that reflect qualitative differences
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In what way does a ratio scale measurement differ from an interval measurement?
It implies the existence of an absolute zero value
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The behaviour that is measured during an experiment is known as the...
Dependent variable
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The full reference to a journal article in standard format as it appears in the reference section of a lab report will present in the following order:
Author, year, title of article, journal name, journal volume, pages
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When a researcher studies an individual differences (or subject) variable, the levels of that subject variable are...
Selected
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You must write a design section for a lab report: A researcher studied attitudes that three different age groups held about war. One group comprised 10 yr olds, another of 25 yr olds, and another of 60 yr olds. The first sentence should be:
This quasi-experiment used a between-groups design
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A general term to describe the changes people undergo with repeated testing in repeated measures designs is
Practice effects
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What is the definition of an independent variable?
A variable that is manipulated or controlled by the experimenter
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When conducting a quasi-experiment, researchers must
Use an appropriate matching task
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What is the general rule for balancing practice effects in repeated measures design experiments?
Each condition of the experiment must appear in each ordinal position equally often
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In an independent groups design, a separate group of people serves as the control group. In the repeated measures design
Participants serve as their own control
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An experiment is conducted to test the effect of alcohol hand-eye coordination. Participants are randomly assigned to a high or low alcohol condition. The amount of alcohol is the _____, hand-eye coordination is the _____ and the design is _____
IV, DV, between-subjects
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The principle of universalism states that
The laws of human behaviour are the same for all individuals, cultures and societies
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Out of the following correlation coefficients, which indicates the weakest relationship?
+0.10
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The maximum correlation between two variables is
The product of the square roots of their internal reliability
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The overall effect of one IV in a factorial design is called a...
Main effect
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How many IV's are involved in a 3x3 factorial design?
2
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From a population consisting of 50% males and 50% females, two samples of 20 people are drawn at random. It is found that the number of females in each sample differs slightly. The difference is an example of...
Selection bias
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Many experimental psychologists collect data using psychology undergraduates as participants. Such samples are referred to as...
Convenience samples
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When not everyone answers a mail survey, it is reasonable to assume that those who do not respond are different in important ways from those who do not respond. The term used to describe this is...
Response bias
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Which problem occurs when respondents react to measurement by reporting what they think they should say, rather than what they actually believe?
Social desirable responding
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Suppose a population is 60% women and 40% men. A representative sample of 200 people from this population would consist of...
120 women and 80 men
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The demand characteristics of an experiment are...
Cues that bias the participant's interpretation of the experiment
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As a result of a social survey it is reported that 73% of people believe that smoking should be banned in all public places. The value of 73 is...
The point estimate
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A health psychologist undertakes a survey of exercise done by adults. Because the extent of exercise varies with age, the psychologist defines bands of 20-39, 40-59 and 60+. Sampling at random in proportion to the no. of individuals in each band is..
Stratified random sampling
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Making an ethical decision involves...
Identifying what ethical guidelines are relevant in a situation and what is at stake for all the parties involved
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An overriding principle of the APA Ethical Standards for the care and use of animals in research is that the care of the animals by psychologists be as...
Humane as possible
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All data collected from participants are confidential unless...
They have been informed that it is not prior to consent
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Test-retest reliability refers to...
The correlation between scores on two administrations of a measure
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When a study is free of confounds, it is said to...
Be internally valid
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The results of an externally valid study are ones that...
Apply to a wide range of participants, conditions and settings
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