This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Methods > Methods Of Research – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Methods Of Research Quiz 23 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Name a research approache which can be used when a researcher wants to interview people A) Qualitative. B) Quantitative. C) Mixed methods. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Qualitative. 2. Units of the population are ordered in some fashion. Usually, every k-th unit is chosen. A) Systematic. B) Proportional. C) Probable. D) Stratified. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Systematic. 3. Another name for a self-selected sample A) Volunteer. B) Random. C) Systematic. D) Opportunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volunteer. 4. A compelling question is one that ..... A) Will hold your interest. B) Can be debated. C) Has lots of information. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 5. The sleep control center of the brain is the: A) Temporal lobe. B) Hypothalamus. C) Hippocampus. D) Corpus callosum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothalamus. 6. Predicts the result of a theory A) Hypothesis. B) Scientific method. C) Operational definition. D) Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis. 7. When adjusting your research question, you should ask yourself: A) Who has done the most work on your issue?. B) What questions about the issue have already been answered?. C) Are there theories that can help you make sense of your question?. D) What aspects of the issue have received the most attention?. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are there theories that can help you make sense of your question?. 8. Characteristics of a Good Literature Review are A) Simply summarizes sources. B) Only citing references that agree with your argument. C) Define the need for your research problem. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Define the need for your research problem. 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? A) Median. B) Mode. C) None of these answers are correct. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 10. This perspective focuses on what you have learned through rewards and punishments A) Behavioral. B) Biological. C) Psychoanalytic. D) Cognative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioral. 11. By combining two or more research methods in a research study, researchers can make it less likely that what will happen? A) They will collect all applicable data. B) They will cover every aspect and perspective. C) They will make a mistake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They will make a mistake. 12. Research is a way of establishing knowledge through A) Intuition. B) Empiricism. C) Logic. D) Ethical reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Empiricism. 13. Which of the following describes the content with who are to be benefitted and how they are going to be benefitted? A) Objectives of the study. B) Problem statement. C) Significance of the study. D) Scope and limitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Significance of the study. 14. A term used to describe how people look for cues in experiments and this changes their behaviour A) The Hawthorne effect. B) Social desirability bias. C) Demand characteristics. D) Investigator bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demand characteristics. 15. Name the method or an approach of exploring the life of a social unit A) Preliminary study. B) Case study. C) Secondary study. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Case study. 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." A) Adolescents ages 13-16. B) 6 month period. C) Tretinoin. D) Facial acne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tretinoin. 17. Which approach to psychology focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures? A) Humanistic. B) Social-cultural. C) Psychodynamic. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social-cultural. 18. This method of research can only be measured between the values of-1 and 1. A) Correlational. B) Experiments. C) Observational. D) Case Study. E) Survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlational. 19. Before you form a hypothesis, you need to ..... A) Perform calculations. B) Do research. C) Write a procedure. D) All of these choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do research. 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. A) Survey. B) Experiments. C) Correlational. D) Case Study. E) Observational. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experiments. 21. What is confidentiality? A) Need for researchers to tell people that they are being studied. B) Need for researchers not to publish personal details of respondents. C) Not putting someones name on their research. D) To only research people that you know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Need for researchers not to publish personal details of respondents. 22. Which of the following is a feature of confidentiality? A) Participant awareness of the study's purpose. B) No lasting harm resulting from participating in a study. C) No identifying information is revealed about a participant. D) The right to withdraw from the study at any time is provided. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No identifying information is revealed about a participant. 23. Which of the following is an example of probability sampling A) Simple random sampling. B) Convenience sampling. C) Purposive sampling. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple random sampling. 24. Correlation aims at ..... A) To find out the difference between groups after treatment is given. B) To find out the relationship between the two variables, whether it is positive or negative. C) To find out the phenomena happen in large population about an object. D) To find out the phenomena happen in small population about an object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To find out the relationship between the two variables, whether it is positive or negative. 25. ..... is a set of elements taken from a larger population according to certain rules A) Placebo. B) Statistic. C) Population. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sample. 26. When qualitative and quantitative data are analyzed using qualitative techniques within a single study, this is reflective of which of the following? A) Monodata-multianalysis. B) Multidata-multianalysis. C) Multidata-monoanalysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multidata-monoanalysis. 27. Conducting a mixed-methods research design may be more difficult than conducting a study using just one type of data. Why? A) Sampling considerations are more complex. B) Rigorous application of both qualitative and quantitative procedures. C) Considering the best way to integrate the results of both forms of data collection. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 28. The second step of the scientific method; the researcher makes a prediction as to why a phenomenon occurs A) Observation/form a question. B) Analyze the results. C) Form a hypothesis. D) Draw a conclusion. E) Test hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form a hypothesis. 29. Which of the following is a research method? A) Correlation. B) Matched-pairs. C) Randomization. D) Brain Imaging. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correlation. 30. A hypothesis is a prediction that is: A) Testable. B) Self-evident. C) Able to be replicated. D) Founded in Semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Testable. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesMethods Of Research Quiz 1Methods Of Research Quiz 2Methods Of Research Quiz 3Methods Of Research Quiz 4Methods Of Research Quiz 5Methods Of Research Quiz 6Methods Of Research Quiz 7Methods Of Research Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books