Methodology MCQs

Option A: 1 & 2

Option B: 2 & 3

Option C: 1 & 4

Option D: 3 & 4

Correct Answer: 3 & 4 ✔

Option A: 1, 3 & 4

Option B: 1, 2 & 3

Option C: 2, 3 & 4

Option D: 1, 2 & 4

Correct Answer: 1, 3 & 4 ✔

Option A: Valid, scientific, ethical, experimental, correlational

Option B: Scientific, experimental, public, parsimonious, cumulative

Option C: valid, reliable, Public, parsimonious, cumulative

Option D: Experimental, quasi-experimental survey, correlational, meta-analytic

Correct Answer: valid, reliable, Public, parsimonious, cumulative ✔

Option A: Psychology is bound by research ethics

Option B: Psychology relies on the scientific method

Option C: Psychology relies on the statistical tests

Option D: Psychology is bound by human populations

Correct Answer: Psychology relies on the scientific method ✔

Option A: Theories, hypotheses, tests

Option B: Self-report, experiments correlations

Option C: Behavioural, self-report, experimental

Option D: Behavioural, self-report, physiological

Correct Answer: Behavioural, self-report, physiological ✔

Option A: The true experimental method

Option B: The quasi-experimental method

Option C: The introspective method

Option D: The case study method

Correct Answer: The introspective method ✔

Option A: 1 & 2

Option B: 1 & 3

Option C: 2 & 3

Option D: 4

Correct Answer: 2 & 3 ✔

Option A: Experimentation

Option B: Revision

Option C: Manipulation Check

Option D: Triangulation

Correct Answer: Triangulation ✔

Option A: Manipulate

Option B: Correlate

Option C: Attract

Option D: Validate

Correct Answer: Manipulate ✔

Option A: The dependent variable is manipulated by the experimenter

Option B: Experimental control involves making every condition different in every respect except the treatment (I.e., the independent variable

Option C: In a between-subjects experiment control is typically achieved by a process of carefully assigning participants to the right conditions

Option D: In a properly designed experiment, we can infer that an observed difference must be due to our manipulation of the independent variable

Correct Answer: In a properly designed experiment, we can infer that an observed difference must be due to our manipulation of the independent variable ✔

Option A: Practical issues are irrelevant when deciding which research method use

Option B: No one method is universally superior to any other.

Option C: Both a and b

Option D: Neither a nor b

Correct Answer: No one method is universally superior to any other. ✔

Option A: Telling experimental participants about the hypotheses that they are not being tested as such

Option B: Informing participants that they are not being ‘tested’ as such

Option C: Telling them that the data they produce is confidential and will not be discussed with any third party

Option D: Telling participants that they can withdraw from the experiment at any time and that they can ask that the data they generate be deleted

Correct Answer: Telling experimental participants about the hypotheses that they are not being tested as such ✔

Option A: When researchers report and comment on behaviour, without attempting to quantify it, they are using a qualitative research method

Option B: Qualitative methods can include coding, grouping and collecting observations

Option C: The way people evaluate the friendliness of the people they meet, illustrates some features of a qualitative approach to psychological research

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Nominal, ordinal, internal, external

Option B: internal, external, quasi, survey

Option C: Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio

Option D: Interval, ratio, quasi, survey

Correct Answer: Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio ✔

Option A: When we use inferential statistics usually, we have to use a test statistics

Option B: Two things influence our judgment about whether a given observation is any sense remarkable (1) the information that something is going on; and (2) the amount of random error in our observations

Option C: The statistics we normally psychology contain both an information term and a term, and express one as a ratio of the other

Option D: The test statistic will yield a high value (suggesting that something remarkable is going on) when there is relatively less information than error and a low value (suggesting that nothing remarkable is going on) when there is more information than error

Correct Answer: The test statistic will yield a high value (suggesting that something remarkable is going on) when there is relatively less information than error and a low value (suggesting that nothing remarkable is going on) when there is more information than error ✔

Option A: Motivation, cognition, behavior

Option B: Descriptive, inferential, evaluation

Option C: Mean, average, sum

Option D: Mean, median, mode

Correct Answer: Mean, median, mode ✔

Option A: The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum data values

Option B: The most commonly used measure of dispersion is standard deviation (SD)

Option C: The standard deviation is equal to the square of the sum of the squares of all the differences (deviations) between each score and the mean, divided by the number of scores

Option D: The square root of the standard deviation is called the variance

Correct Answer: The standard deviation is equal to the square of the sum of the squares of all the differences (deviations) between each score and the mean, divided by the number of scores ✔

Option A: No, because correlated variables do not indicated causal relationships

Option B: No, because correlated variables are not based on inferential statistics

Option C: Yes, because correlated variables indicated causal relationships

Option D: Yes, because correlated variables are based on inferential statistics

Correct Answer: No, because correlated variables do not indicated causal relationships ✔

Option A: Use a different method to replicated use results

Option B: Obtain a larger sample to replicate results

Option C: Perform manipulation checks

Option D: Reject the null hypothesis

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: They provide a set of statistical

Option B: They Provide a set of rules to protect participants

Option C: They provide a set of hypotheses to be tested

Option D: They provide a set standards for variable selection

Correct Answer: They Provide a set of rules to protect participants ✔