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The Scientific Method in Psychology

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  1. 1"Information is gained through direct observation or experiment." What is this known as?
    1. AExperimental methods
    2. BObjectivity
    3. CEmpirical methods
    4. DScientific snobbery
    5. EObservational skills
  2. 2"Scientists strive to not let their expectations affect the observations and measurements they record." What is this known as?
    1. AEmpirical methods
    2. BObjectivity
    3. COmniscience
    4. DIndependent observations
    5. EObserver bias
    6. FNaive optimism
  3. 3"One way to demonstrate the validity of an observation or experiment is to repeat it. If the outcome is the same, this affirms the 'truth' of the original results." What is this known as?
    1. AReliability
    2. BEmpirical methods
    3. CFlatulence
    4. DReplicability
    5. ERepeatability
    6. FTest-retest method
  4. 4"One aim of science is to construct collections of general principles to help us understand and predict natural phenomena." What is this known as?
    1. ATheory construction
    2. BEmpirical methods
    3. CObjectivity
    4. DPredictive validity
    5. EAlbus Dumbledore, the greatest wizard who ever lived
    6. FHypothesis construction
  5. 5"In order to demonstrate a causal relationship, scientists must make tests fair by varying only one factor and standardising all other factors." What is this known as?
    1. AHypothesis testing
    2. BEmpirical methods
    3. CBDSM
    4. DControl testing
    5. EFair testing
    6. FStandardisation
  6. 6What is induction?
    1. AReasoning from the particular to the general
    2. BReasoning from the general to the particular
    3. CA type of heating
    4. DReasoning from pre-existing theories to prove the truth or non-truth of something
    5. EA psychic power
    6. FEvaluating all existing literature on a topic
  7. 7What is deduction?
    1. AReasoning from pre-existing theories to prove the truth of somethingelse
    2. BReasoning from many facts about one things to discover a single fact about something else
    3. CReasoning from the particular to the general
    4. DReasoning for dummies
    5. ESherlock Holmes
    6. FReasoning from the general to the particular
  8. 8What arguments support the idea that psychology is a science?
    1. APsychology uses the scientific method - psychologists generate models that can be falsified and conduct well-controlled experiments to test these
    2. BPsychology is a popular, well taught subject in schools and is counted as a science subject at university
    3. CPsychology lacks the objectivity and control of other sciences - problems such as experimenter bias and demand characteristics compromise validity
    4. DQualitative research such as that used in some psychological research can still follow the scientific method
    5. EPsychology has no single paradigm
    6. FYour face is a pseudoscience
  9. 9What arguments are used to suggest that psychology is not a science?
    1. APsychology lacks the objectivity and control of other sciences - problems such as experimenter bias and demand characteristics compromise validity
    2. BPsychology is founded on the psychodynamic approach which is unscientific and unfalsifiable
    3. CScience takes a nomothetic approach, seeking to make generalisations, but this is inappropriate in psychology, which takes the idiographic approach and treats all individuals as unique
    4. DThere is a strange man peering in through the window please make it stop.
    5. EPsychology has no single paradigm, unlike other sciences
    6. FScience tries to reduce natural phenomena to their most simple explanation, however, human behaviour is very complex and trying to reduce it to a simpler form results in reductionism
  10. 10What is an abstract?
    1. AA review of studies related to the area being investigated
    2. BA statement of what the researcher wants to investigate and their hypotheses
    3. CA summary of all the other sections of the report, including the aim of the study
    4. DThe beginning section of a peer review
    5. EThe researcher's evaluation of their study
    6. FA type of art movement made popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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A Levels Psychology (Research Methods) Quiz sobre The Scientific Method in Psychology, criado por otaku96 em 29-04-2015.
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