Methods Of Research Quiz 23 (30 MCQs)

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1. Name a research approache which can be used when a researcher wants to interview people
2. Units of the population are ordered in some fashion. Usually, every k-th unit is chosen.
3. Another name for a self-selected sample
4. A compelling question is one that .....
5. The sleep control center of the brain is the:
6. Predicts the result of a theory
7. When adjusting your research question, you should ask yourself:
8. Characteristics of a Good Literature Review are
9. Which of the following would be the measure of central tendency that would be most likely to be effected by a few extreme scores?
10. This perspective focuses on what you have learned through rewards and punishments
11. By combining two or more research methods in a research study, researchers can make it less likely that what will happen?
12. Research is a way of establishing knowledge through
13. Which of the following describes the content with who are to be benefitted and how they are going to be benefitted?
14. A term used to describe how people look for cues in experiments and this changes their behaviour
15. Name the method or an approach of exploring the life of a social unit
16. In the hypothesis stated below, what is the independent variable? "Adolescents ages 13-16 that use Tretinoin for a period of 6 months will see a decrease the facial acne."
17. Which approach to psychology focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?
18. This method of research can only be measured between the values of-1 and 1.
19. Before you form a hypothesis, you need to .....
20. The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that some variables are too challenging to manipulate in an experiment (emotions, other cognitive behavior). Results may not be reflective of the general population.
21. What is confidentiality?
22. Which of the following is a feature of confidentiality?
23. Which of the following is an example of probability sampling
24. Correlation aims at .....
25. ..... is a set of elements taken from a larger population according to certain rules
26. When qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed using qualitative techniques within a single study, this is reflective of which of the following?
27. Conducting a mixed-methods research design may be more difficult than conducting a study using just one type of data. Why?
28. The second step of the scientific method; the researcher makes a prediction as to why a phenomenon occurs
29. Which of the following is a research method?
30. A hypothesis is a prediction that is: