Peer Review and Research Methods

Peer Review is

• Others checking others work

• The assessment of scientific work by specialists in the same discipline

• Poll taken by other researchers

• A process of checking throughout the research

What are the main aims of peer review?

• Allocation of resources

• Validate the quality and relevance of the research

• To suggest changes and improvements

• All of the above

Publication bias in peer review is similar to:

• Bottom of the ladder problem

• filing cabinet problem

• Lost luggage problem

• File drawer problem

During peer review, it is usually the case that the peer doing the reviewing remains:

• Anomalous

• Ubiquitous

• Analogous

• Anonymous

Placing research directly onto the internet, why is this a problem for science?

• To be honest it is not

• It has not gone through the correct process of peer review

• The general public are the ones who give approval

• The scientific world becomes upset

Why may it be a problem using specialists of a particular field to carry out the peer review?

• They may not approve the research as it challenges their own or is going to be published before theirs

• They may not approve it because it is to time consuming

• They may not approve it because it is to in-depth

• They may not approve it because they can't be bothered to read it.

What research method it Asch and Zimbardo use?

• Quasi experiment

• Field Experiment

• Natural Experiment

• Laboratory Experiment

In both Asch and Zimbardo's experiments what sampling technique did they use?

• Opportunity

• Stratified

• Random

• Volunteer

Which type of sampling technique/s is/are the most time consuming?/s

• Volunteer, random, systematic

• Opportunity, random, stratified

• Random, systematic, stratified

• Systematic, stratified, opportunity

What are some of the key features of science?

• Objective, reliability, validity

• Subjective, bias, validity

• Objective, reductionist, bias

• Subjective, Objective, bias