practice mcq research methods

Conventional alpha level in psychology?

0.05

Which BPS principle values dignity and worth of all persons?

Respect

Null hypothesis for nutrition/wound healing study?

No relationship between variables in population

Idiographic approach focuses on?

Individual differences

Measure of central tendency for personality types (nominal)?

Mode

Safeguard for repeated measures design?

Counterbalancing

Predicting "A slower than B" is what type of prediction?

One-tailed

Graph with bars separated by spaces?

Bar graph

Probability-based sampling methods?

Random, stratified, systematic

Strength of IV-DV relationship measured by?

Effect size

NOT a research process stage?

Dispersion

True about statistical power?

All answers: detects effect, determines sample size, linked to Type I error

Power factor NOT under researcher control?

Effect size

Hermeneutics is concerned with?

Interpreting meanings (not causes)

Expected frequencies in chi-square are?

Computed from null hypothesis

Sample from key figures naming others?

Snowball sample

IV is manipulated to determine?

Effect on DV

Children under 16 need consent from?

Parent/guardian

z-score for score 15, mean 25, SD 5?

-2

Chi-square used for what variables?

Categorical

Feminist epistemologies introduced because?

All: women invisible, claimed inferior, researcher influence important

What is a convenience sample?

Easily available participants

Case-study research is?

Study of single individual/group

Right to have data destroyed refers to?

Right to withdraw

Deception includes?

All: false expectations, false performance info, withholding objectionable info

What is an outlier?

Single very different score

Before conducting research, researcher must?

All: ensure compliance, evaluate ethics, consider risk

Normal distribution properties?

All: bell-shaped, symmetrical, tails meet x-axis at infinity

In true experiments, researchers manipulate?

Independent variable

Sample from specific geographical area?

Cluster sample

Type I error means?

Concluding effect when none exists

What is a random sample?

Equal chance of selection for all population members