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Quiz by Daniel Whiting, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Whiting
almost 7 years ago
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Question 1
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Where do research questions come from?
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Theory testing
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Curiosity
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Psychology textbooks
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Psychology assignments
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The public
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Technique testing
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For phenomena demonstration
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Between-subjects designs
Question 2
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What is an advantage of having a within-subjects design?
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More power for finding significance
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Participants get a practise effect
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Random allocation allows control for confounds
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It allows us to determine if an article will be accepted for publication due to topic importance
Question 3
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One advantage of factorial designs is that it lets us see the effects of different independent variables separately or together.
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- True
- False
Question 4
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What are the three requirements that need to be present to be able to determine causality?
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Cause precedes effect
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Relationship is non-spurious
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Relationship between cause/effect
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A correlation of 0.6 or higher
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A significance of 0.5 or higher
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Presence of confounds
Question 5
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How do social psychologists test ideas?
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Participant observation
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Looking at archives
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Surveys
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Correlational research
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Experimental research
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Reflection on personal experience
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By watching reality shows such as big brother
Question 6
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Internal validity refers to...
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How well an experiment represents a real life situation
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How well an independent variable can account for the results found
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How close a participant scores on repeated measures of the same task
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The rigorousness of the studies design
Question 7
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The tendency of extreme scores to be followed by less extreme scores is called [blank_start]regression to the mean[blank_end].
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regression to the mean
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accuracy
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precision
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reliability
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