REVISION Yr 13 Research Methods 1

In which two of these experimental methods is there no direct manipulation of the IV?

• Laboratory experiment

• Field Experiment

• Natural experiment

• Quasi experiment

Which of these describes time sampling in an observation?

• Observing people without their knowledge

• Recording behaviour at prescribed intervals

• Recording the number of times a target behaviour occurs

• Participants are aware they are being observed

Which of these does not make a correlation different from an experiment?

• There is no IV

• Can't assume cause and effect

• Operationalised variables

• Looks at relationships

What is the IV in the research?

A psychologist showed participants 50 different cards one at a time. Each card had two unrelated words printed on it eg house, pig. Participants in one group were told to create a mental image linking the two words together. The other group were told to just memorise the words. Each participant was then shown a card with the first word on and they had to record the second word

• Instructions given

• Memorising

• Mental image

• Instructed to use mental image or just memorise the word

Which best describes this hypothesis?

'There will be a correlation between the number of days off sick and the quality of work'

• Non directional

• Null

• Directional, experimental

• Non directional - correlational

Which distribution best describes the statement below?

Mr Kazi said to Miss Stapleton 'well, the mock exam was obviously too easy'

• Positive skew

• Skew

• Negative skew

• Normal distribution

Answer explanation

Standard deviation....

• Is a measure of dispersion

• Uses all values in the data set to be calculated

• Uses the mean in its calculation

• All of these

Which of these is true of psychology?

• There is a single paradigm

• There are no paradigms

• It's a paradigm shift

• There are multiple paradigms

Which method for checking reliability is being described here?

'Same person/group undertake research measure on different ocassions'

• Split half

• Test retest

• Interobserver reliability

• Face validity

What two sections are missing from a psychological report?

Results, abstract, method, introduction

• References

• Sample

• Discussion

• Instruments