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Methods Of Research Quiz 12 (25 MCQs)

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1. The most common scales used in research are
2. 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?
3. Which among the following variables links the cause and effect relationship of Independent and Dependent Variable
4. 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.
5. 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
6. Also known as an observational study, it focuses on the analysis of a phenomenon in its natural context.
7. A condition in which a person can no longer control his or her drug use is called:
8. To prevent a biased sample and control for order effects in an experimenter, a researcher would respectively need to use
9. Process of obtaining a numerical description of the extent to which a person or object possesses some characteristics
10. Factors such as time, money or limited access which will restrict the researcher when carrying out their study.
11. A field experiment:
12. Which of the following is a random sample?
13. In a psychological experiment, the control group is:
14. A micro theory which relies on using qualitative methods to collect data.
15. The independent variable of a research entitled "The Effectiveness of Mind-mapping in teaching writing ability" is _____
16. Method that involves recording the behavioural pattern of people, objects and events in a systematic manner to obtain information about the phenomenon of interest
17. Professor Garcia would like to study parental spanking and aggressive behavior in children. Which of the following research methods would NOT be feasible due to ethical problems associated with trying to manipulate the spanking variable?
18. Quantitative data is often presented in the form of _____
19. An experiment is set up and a hypothesis is tested by creating a situation in which one of the variable is manipulated.
20. Good mixed methods research understands and integrates the important ideas from the quantitative and qualitative data, findings, and perspectives. This is called _____
21. The theory that states that dreaming serves to work out our daily problems while we sleep.
22. In a _____, the interviewer schedule may state exactly what questions should be asked, as well as the order of the questions.
23. In an experiment studying the impact of meditation on stress, the control group should
24. Jill wants to study the process of thinking. Which field of psychology should she choose?
25. Which of these is most likely to improve sampling accuracy?
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