6. amanda has run an experiment to examine the impact of a mindfulness intervention vs control on empathy. she is interested in presenting the results in a paper and wishes to demonstrate consition effects. Which graph should she use?
bar graph
scatter plot
histogram
box plot
7. in standardised, normally distributed data, what percentage of the sample falls within +/- standadrd deviation of the mean
47.72%
68.26%
34.13%
50.00%
8. a criticism of a structured observation is
it does not allow us to understand the meanings behind behaviours
it is unethical to observe people without their knowledge
it does not allow us to impose and framework on a social setting
it only generates a small amount of data
9. which of the following is not secondary data?
famous art work
published journal articles
nonverbal behaviour
census data
10. which of the following is not a potential limitation of observational methods
unable to generalise because of limited reliability
time consuming
often unable to identify cause and effect
observer may hold biased perceptions
11. which of the following types of variance can a researcher not control for
error variance
treatment variance
confound variance
none of the above, researchers can control for all types of variance
12. which of the followinf observational methods represented the mid-grouns between full observer and full participant
as part of a group, watching shop lifting behaviour of people recruited for research
independently watching shop lifting behaviour in a busy market place
as part of a group, watching shop lifting behaviour of your friends
independently watching shop-lifting behaviour on CCTV video
13. which of theses are not a strength of longitudinal survey research
able to examine cause and effect relations
none of the above
able to examine variable across development
able to measure dependant variables
14. amanda has run an experiment to examine the impact of mindfulness intervention vs control on empathy. she is interested in examining the distribution of her data to look for outliers. Which graph should she use?
histogram
bar graph
box plot
scatter plot
15. which of the following is not used to judge the quality of psychological research?
validity
generalisability
cost
replicability
16. a researcher is interested in examining whether men have higher intelligence than women. using a hypothesis testing approach, the researcher finds a probability of .42. which of the following decisions should the researcher make?
reject the null hypothesis
reject the alternative hypothesis
fail to reject the null hypothesis
accept the null hypothesis
17. which of the following depicts the best experimental design?
randomly assign people to watch hamilton or cats and then complete a questionnaire about racial bias
has people select whether they watch hamilton or cats and then randomly assign them to complete a questionnaire about racial bias or be interviewed about their racial bias
assign the first 30 people to sign up to watch hamilton and the rest of the people watch cats and then complete questionnaire on racial bias
randomly assign people to watch hamilton or cats and then randomly assign them to complete a questionnaire or be interviewed about racial bias
18. which of the following is the benefit of conducting an experiment
examine relation between variables
determines cause and effect
measures dependant variables collect quantitative data
collect quantitative data
19. temperature is an example of which level of measurement scale?
interval
nominal
ordinal
ratio
20. an experiment seeks to understand a person's subjective experiences
