Methods Of Research Quiz 11 (30 MCQs)

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1. An advantage of computer-assisted telephone interviewing is:
2. The research method used if you watch TV for a week and count how many shows portray violence.
3. An Observation, Questionnaire and Interviews are examples of what type of research?
4. ..... involves the control or manipulation of conditions for the purpose of studying the relative effects of various treatments applied to members of a sample, or of the same treatment applied to members of different samples
5. In an experiment the ..... group is NOT exposed to the independent variable.
6. Anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences.
7. Which of the following is a research tool where there is a verbal conservation between two people with a objective of relevant information?
8. When a participant's behaviour is influenced by their knowledge of an observer's presence
9. What is it called when the group is aware they are being observed?
10. The data collection methods are:
11. Small portion of existing knowledge and experience of the people is published in written form
12. Any substance, other than food, that alters the function of both the mind and the body.
13. What is the difference between participant observation and non-participant observation?
14. This refers to the consistency of scores or answers from one administration of an instrument to another, and from one set of items to another.
15. In a true experiment we manipulate the ..... and we measure the .....
16. The advantage of this method of research is that it can help to clarify relationships between variable that cannot be explained by other research methods, in other words-predictions.
17. The most common scales used in research are
18. What is done at the end of a study to assure that participants know all the information about the study (the truth) and leave in the same emotional state as they started?
19. Which among the following variables links the cause and effect relationship of Independent and Dependent Variable
20. The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that the strict control of variables offers researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships.
21. A ..... is a tentative conclusion or answer to a specific question raised at the beginning of the investigation. It is an educated guess about the answer to a specific question
22. Also known as an observational study, it focuses on the analysis of a phenomenon in its natural context.
23. A condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use is called:
24. To prevent a biased sample and control for order effects in an experimenter, a researcher would respectively need to use
25. Process of obtaining a numerical description of the extent to which a person or object possesses some characteristics
26. Factors such as time, money or limited access which will restrict the researcher when carrying out their study.
27. Jonathan's last five test grades are 94, 91, 93, 87, and 90. What is the mean of Jonathon's grades? Fill your answer into the grid below.
28. A field experiment:
29. Which of the following is a random sample?
30. Which type of mixed method design uses qualitative data first to determine an intervention or measurement tool, and then analyzes that tool using quantitative data?