This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Methods > Descriptive Research – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Descriptive Research Quiz 1 (16 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The need to associate with others and maintain social bonds. A) Confounding of variables. B) Operational definition. C) Affiliation motive. D) Social desirability bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affiliation motive. 2. A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations. A) Hypothesis. B) Empiricism. C) Placebo effects. D) Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theory. 3. Subjects in a study who do not receive the special treatment given to the experimental group. A) Control Group. B) Experimental group. C) Hypothesis. D) Meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Control Group. 4. An American psychologist who supported the experimentation on animals in order to help humans. A) Robert Rosenthal. B) Stanley Schachter. C) Neal Miller. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neal Miller. 5. The subjects in a study who receive some special treatment in regard to the independent variable. A) Extraneous variables. B) Experimental Group. C) Control group. D) Correlation coefficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experimental Group. 6. Identify the Population: A) 230 Teachers. B) All Cebu City Teachers. C) Students. D) Cebu City Elementary Schools. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All Cebu City Teachers. 7. A tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables. A) Inferential statistics. B) Hypothesis. C) Research methods. D) Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 8. The collection of subjects selected for observation in an empirical study. A) Descriptive statistics. B) Sample. C) Journal. D) Replication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample. 9. The persons or animals whose behavior is systematically observed in a study. A) Theory. B) Naturalistic observation. C) Confounding of variables. D) Participants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Participants. 10. Below are the advantages of open-ended question except for ..... A) Easier to construct. B) Permits follow up by interviewer. C) More popular with respondents. D) Allows more freedom of response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More popular with respondents. 11. The score that falls exactly in the center of a distribution of scores. A) Meditation. B) Mode. C) Mean. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Median. 12. The use of mathematics to organize, summarize, and interpret numerical data. A) Statistics. B) Naturalistic observation. C) Variability. D) Sampling bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistics. 13. What is an in-depth investigation of an individual subject. A) Case Study. B) Control Group. C) Response Set. D) Standard Deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Case Study. 14. The extent to which the scores in a data set tend to vary from each other and from the mean. A) Survey. B) Data collection techniques. C) Correlation. D) Variability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variability. 15. Statistics that are used to interpret data and draw conclusions. A) Inferential statistics. B) Statistical significance. C) Replication. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inferential statistics. 16. A descriptive studies characterizes questions except for A) Who. B) Where. C) When. D) How. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How. Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesAction Research QuizAnalytical Research QuizApplied Research QuizBasic Fundamental Research QuizCase Study QuizClassification Research QuizComparative Research QuizDocumentary And Content Analysis Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books