Roll Up For The Research Methods Quiz!
A Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer(s) for each question.
Quantitative data is?
- Expressed in numerical form
- Is concerned with how things are expressed
- Big data
- Small date
- None of the above
How is nominal data presented?
- In order
- In discrete categories
- Units of equal distance
- Data where there is a true zero
- By a man with a big stick
What is ordinal data?
- Ordinary data
- Well behaved data
- Ranked data
- Numbers
- All of the above
Advantages of a laboratory experiment ...
A one tailed hypothesis predicts...
- The future
- The lottery result
- The frequency of the effect
- The direction of the effect
- That there will be no difference
The I.V. is...
- The variable manipulated in order to observe its effects
- The variable that is measured
- The free spirited variable
- The initials of a famous psychologist
- A confounding variable
Counterbalancing is used to...
- To improve the validity of the experiment
- To make sure the conditions are of equal size
- To ensure fair play
- To weigh participants
- Control order effects
Which method of sampling is least likely to produce bias?
- Opportunity Sampling
- Random Sampling
- Stratified Sampling
- Quasi-random sampling
- Quota Sampling
The advantages of a matched pairs design are...
What can pilot studies be used for?
- As a way of getting to know Pilots
- Any problems can be adjusted
- B,D and E
- To check standardised procedures
- To test your design
The Green Spoon effect is?
- The experimenter treats his participants to mushy peas
- The participants are 'spoon fed' the answers
- Participants are subtly reinforced by the experimenter's comments
- Participants are given the correct answers in coded form
- None of the above
Which of the following are measures of central tendency?
Ecological Validity is...
- The extent to which findings can be generalised to other settings, in particular real life
- Good for the environment
- When the experiment is done outside of the laboratory
- The same as face validity
- Something which makes your results more reliable
What is a placebo?
- A rock band
- An experiment done before the main study
- An experiment involving lots of participants, who have been carefully chosen to avoid bias
- A treatment which appears to be have the same effect as the 'real thing' but that only 'works' psychologically.
- A part of the body that controls your response to stress
Which measure of dispersion is easiest to calculate?
- Standard deviation
- Mean
- Range
- Median
- Mode