MCQ practice for research methods, psychology

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Basic scientific research is carried out:

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Precision Teaching is defined as:

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When developing hypotheses, the inductive approach seeks to_____

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Which of the following best represents the stages of the experimental method of research?

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A theory must be parsimonious, specific and testable. To what does the term parsimonious refer?

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A Murder Mystery – Detective Noclue interviews a large pool of suspects, and then eliminates them to leave the culprit unmasked. This is an example which of scientific method?

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Which is not one of the four principles of PT

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Which of the following does NOT form part of the SAFMEDS procedure?

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An alternative term for a repeated measures design is__________

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A hypothesis is best defined as ____________

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Dr Who was attempting to find a cure for procrastination. He developed an intervention whereby students were immediately rewarded with chocolate for handing work in early. He designed an experiment with one treatment group. Chocolate given to students was the dependent variable. Individuals were first measured in a baseline phase, then a treatment phase, followed by another baseline phase. This is a classic example of a(n):

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The phase of a SCD experiment in which the treatment is introduced is known as the ________ phase.

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When you move from a baseline phase to an intervention phase and then back to a baseline phase, you are using a_________________ design

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Which of the following is NOT a phase in the A-B-A design?

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Multiple baseline designs attempt to control for confounds by_______

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The ABA design is generally considered than the ABAB design because participants _

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The baseline stage of a single-case experimental design is useful to researchers because behavior during the baseline allows the researchers to_________

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In the ABAB design, a major ethical concern surrounds______

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If told that this intervention (A-B) was successful, was the behaviour?

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What is the Percentage of Non-overlapping data for the participant?

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An educational psychologist was interested in the effects of a six-week mnemonics intervention on students’ ability to remember areas of the brain such as the hippocampus. How might you define the mnemonics intervention?

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Researchers wanted to examine the impact of watching Alien on memory in a group of older adults. A variety of cognitive tests such as memory tests and word generation tests were administered to the group before, during and after watching one of the films. How might you describe the research design of such a study?

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The results of the Tauntaun long jump final at the Hoth Olympics a long time ago in a galaxy far far away are given below. What is the mean distance jumped by the top 10 Rebel Soldiers (answers to two decimal places)?

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What is the median distance jumped by the top 10 Rebel Pilots (answers to 2 decimal places)?

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Examine the histogram of the qualifying distance for the Tauntauns long jump final at the Hoth Olympics. How would you describe the appearance of the histogram?

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Large standard deviations will have what sort of distribution, relative to a distribution with a low standard deviation?

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The middle score in a distribution is the and the score occurring the greatest frequency is the __.

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A prediction regarding the outcomes of a study is a(n) and an organised system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain certain phenomena and how they are related is a(n)______.

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In which of the following distributions would you find the mean, median and mode to
be identical?

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When writing up a results section for most types of study (including SCD studies) it is good practice to use which ordering of detail?

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The length of time taken to complete a multiple choice questionnaire exam would be best measured using a(n):

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While temperature in degrees Celsius is measured on a(n) scale, ‘luke-warm, warm, and hot’ would be examples of a(n) scale

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Using letter grades (A, B, C, D, E) to classify student performance on an exam is an example of measurement on a(n)____________ scale

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Which of the following is NOT a continuous variable?

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Which type of data would you use to record your status as a full or part time student?

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Which level of measurement would be best to measure the approximate distance from Main Arts to the Wheldon Building?

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By definition a ratio scale has an absolute zero. What does this mean?

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In SPSS what is the 'Variable View'?

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Which of the following methods would you use to enter data on gender into SPSS so you can conduct statistical analyses?

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You are asked on a questionnaire to tick all the relevant boxes that apply to you on an item asking you which clubs or societies you belong to. Affiliation to a club or society would best be thought of what sort of variable?

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What is meant by the term descriptive statistics?

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What is the best way to summarise nominal data?

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The standard deviation is...

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Which of the following statements are true?

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The frequency distribution of the means of several samples from the population is called....

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Which type of chart displays the mean with the confidence intervals represented as vertical lines?

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Compute the mean of the following set of scores and give the answer to 2 decimal places: 3, 5, 7, 3, 6, 8, 2, 7

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A _ is a numerical characteristic of a population and a is a numerical characteristic of a sample

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The typical value of a dataset is described by measures of...

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When the confidence intervals are small, this suggests that...

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If an event has a 95% probability of occurring, what does this mean?

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Use the additional figure to answer the next three questions. The figure shows the standard normal distribution. Arrow A indicates the ____________

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Arrow B indicates ______________

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Arrow C indicates _____________

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If your z-score was -2.85, this would show that ____________

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The difference between the sample statistic and the population parameter is called the ______________

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If the scores on a test have a mean of 26 and a standard deviation of 4, what is the z-score for a score of 18?

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If you have a probability of 67%, what is it expressed as a decimal?

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In order to comply with BPS ethics guidelines, researchers should ____________

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Which of the following would give the closest value to the population mean?

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“A data point very far removed from others within the data set” is known as?

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Which of the following actions will always change the value of the mean?

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A sample consists of n=16 scores. How many of the scores are used to calculate the sample range?

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The phase of a multiple baseline design in which the treatment is introduced is known as______________.

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Two events are_____________ if they have no effect on each other.

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Population ___________, sample statistics.

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The purpose of a research report is to provide what kind of information?

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Probability values are always____.

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In a population of N=6, five of the individuals all have scores that are exactly 1 point above the mean. From this information you can determine that the score for the sixth individual must be____________.

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The normal distribution is an example of________________.

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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.

In this example, the level of depression is the ______ variable.

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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.

In this example, the independent variable is _________.

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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.

The design of the study can best be described as __________

A brief overview of possible questions to come up in the research methods exam

MCQ practice for research methods, psychology

Basic scientific research is carried out:

Precision Teaching is defined as:

When developing hypotheses, the inductive approach seeks to_____

Which of the following best represents the stages of the experimental method of research?

A theory must be parsimonious, specific and testable. To what does the term parsimonious refer?

A Murder Mystery – Detective Noclue interviews a large pool of suspects, and then eliminates them to leave the culprit unmasked. This is an example which of scientific method?

Which is not one of the four principles of PT

Which of the following does NOT form part of the SAFMEDS procedure?

An alternative term for a repeated measures design is__________

A hypothesis is best defined as ____________

The phase of a SCD experiment in which the treatment is introduced is known as the ________ phase.

When you move from a baseline phase to an intervention phase and then back to a baseline phase, you are using a_________________ design

Which of the following is NOT a phase in the A-B-A design?

Multiple baseline designs attempt to control for confounds by_______

The ABA design is generally considered ________ than the ABAB design because participants _________

The baseline stage of a single-case experimental design is useful to researchers because behavior during the baseline allows the researchers to_________

In the ABAB design, a major ethical concern surrounds______

If told that this intervention (A-B) was successful, was the behaviour?

What is the Percentage of Non-overlapping data for the participant?

The ABA design is generally considered than the ABAB design because participants _

The middle score in a distribution is the and the score occurring the greatest frequency is the __.

A prediction regarding the outcomes of a study is a(n) and an organised system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain certain phenomena and how they are related is a(n)______.

In which of the following distributions would you find the mean, median and mode to
be identical?

While temperature in degrees Celsius is measured on a(n) scale, ‘luke-warm, warm, and hot’ would be examples of a(n) scale