Methodology

A. Practical issues are irrelevant when deciding which research method use
B. No one method is universally superior to any other.
C. Both a and b
D. Neither a nor b

A. Telling experimental participants about the hypotheses that they are not being tested as such
B. Informing participants that they are not being ‘tested’ as such
C. Telling them that the data they produce is confidential and will not be discussed with any third party
D. Telling participants that they can withdraw from the experiment at any time and that they can ask that the data they generate be deleted

A. When researchers report and comment on behaviour, without attempting to quantify it, they are using a qualitative research method
B. Qualitative methods can include coding, grouping and collecting observations
C. The way people evaluate the friendliness of the people they meet, illustrates some features of a qualitative approach to psychological research
D. All of the above

A. Nominal, ordinal, internal, external
B. internal, external, quasi, survey
C. Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
D. Interval, ratio, quasi, survey

A. When we use inferential statistics usually, we have to use a test statistics
B. Two things influence our judgment about whether a given observation is any sense remarkable (1) the information that something is going on; and (2) the amount of random error in our observations
C. The statistics we normally psychology contain both an information term and a term, and express one as a ratio of the other
D. The test statistic will yield a high value (suggesting that something remarkable is going on) when there is relatively less information than error and a low value (suggesting that nothing remarkable is going on) when there is more information than error

A. Motivation, cognition, behavior
B. Descriptive, inferential, evaluation
C. Mean, average, sum
D. Mean, median, mode

A. The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum data values
B. The most commonly used measure of dispersion is standard deviation (SD)
C. The standard deviation is equal to the square of the sum of the squares of all the differences (deviations) between each score and the mean, divided by the number of scores
D. The square root of the standard deviation is called the variance

A. No, because correlated variables do not indicated causal relationships
B. No, because correlated variables are not based on inferential statistics
C. Yes, because correlated variables indicated causal relationships
D. Yes, because correlated variables are based on inferential statistics

A. Use a different method to replicated use results
B. Obtain a larger sample to replicate results
C. Perform manipulation checks
D. Reject the null hypothesis
E. All of the above

A. They provide a set of statistical
B. They Provide a set of rules to protect participants
C. They provide a set of hypotheses to be tested
D. They provide a set standards for variable selection