Week 8 - Social Psychology Research

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PSY234 - Personality and Social Quiz on Week 8 - Social Psychology Research, created by Daniel Whiting on 11/05/2017.
Daniel Whiting
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Question 1

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Where do research questions come from?
Answer
  • Theory testing
  • Curiosity
  • Psychology textbooks
  • Psychology assignments
  • The public
  • Technique testing
  • For phenomena demonstration
  • Between-subjects designs

Question 2

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What is an advantage of having a within-subjects design?
Answer
  • More power for finding significance
  • Participants get a practise effect
  • Random allocation allows control for confounds
  • 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.
Answer
  • 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
  • Relationship is non-spurious
  • Relationship between cause/effect
  • A correlation of 0.6 or higher
  • A significance of 0.5 or higher
  • Presence of confounds

Question 5

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How do social psychologists test ideas?
Answer
  • Participant observation
  • Looking at archives
  • Surveys
  • Correlational research
  • Experimental research
  • Reflection on personal experience
  • By watching reality shows such as big brother

Question 6

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Internal validity refers to...
Answer
  • How well an experiment represents a real life situation
  • How well an independent variable can account for the results found
  • How close a participant scores on repeated measures of the same task
  • 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].
Answer
  • regression to the mean
  • accuracy
  • precision
  • reliability
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