MCQs of Psychology - Methodology – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 20

1. Question

(1) Your can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
(2) if tow things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
(3) A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
(3) In most countries, in order o become a psychologist you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

1 & 2
2 & 3
1 & 4
3 & 4

Question 2 of 20

2. Question

Which approach differentiates psychology from the many other disciplines that address similar types of questions?

Psychology is bound by research ethics
Psychology relies on the scientific method
Psychology relies on the statistical tests
Psychology is bound by human populations

Question 3 of 20

3. Question

Which THREE of the following are criteria for good psychological research?
1. it should be public
2. it should subjective.
3. it should be cumulative.
4. it should be parsimonious.

1 , 3 & 4
1 , 2 & 3
2, 3 & 4
1, 2 & 4

Question 4 of 20

4. Question

Five qualities that best describe good psychological research include:

Valid, scientific, ethical, experimental , correlational
Scientific , experimental, public, parsimonious, cumulative
valid, reliable, Public, parsimonious, cumulative
Experimental, quasi-experimental survey, correlational, meta-analytic

Question 5 of 20

5. Question

Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
2. Theories are statements of what rather than why.
3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations.
4. All of the above

1 & 2
1 & 3
2 & 3
4

Question 6 of 20

6. Question

What are the main types of assessment t measures used by psychologists to study the outcomes of mental activity?

Theories, hypotheses, tests
Self-report, experiments correlations
behavioural, self-report, experimental
Behavioural, self-report, physiological

Question 7 of 20

7. Question

Which of the following is NOT a widely used research method in modern experimental psychology?

The true experimental method.
The quasi-experimental method.
The introspective method.
The case study method

Question 8 of 20

8. Question

Experimental groups, treatment groups and control group represent ways to________________ outcome variables.

Manipulate
Correlate
Attract
Validate

Question 9 of 20

9. Question

In psychological research, the process of using multiple research methods to tackle the same issue is referred to as:

Experimentation
Revision
Manipulation Check
Triangulation

Question 10 of 20

10. Question

Which of the following is true?

The dependent variable is manipulated by the experimenter.
Experimental control involves making every condition different in every respect except the treatment (I.e. the independent variable
In a between-subjects experiment control is typically achieved by a process of carefully assigning participants to the right conditions.
In a properly designed experiment, we can infer that an observed difference must be due to our manipulation of the independent variable.

Question 11 of 20

11. Question

Which of the following do we know to be true about the qualitative approach?

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

Question 12 of 20

12. Question

Deciding which method to choose is very complex issue and depends on many factors which of the following statements is correct when making this decisions?

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

Question 13 of 20

13. Question

External validity is compromised by which on of the following?

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

Question 14 of 20

14. Question

Measurement scales used in psychological research are based on four types, which include.

Nominal, ordinal, internal, external
internal, external, quasi, survey
Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
Interval, ratio, quasi, survey

Question 15 of 20

15. Question

The three measures of central tenders include:

Motivation, cognition, behavior
Descriptive, inferential, evaluation
Mean, average, sum
Mean, median, mode

Question 16 of 20

16. Question

Highlight the on FALSE statement about inferential statistics from the below:

When we use inferential statistics usually we have to used a test statistics
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.
The statistics we normally psychology contain both an information term and an term , and express one as a ratio of the other.
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.

Question 17 of 20

17. Question

Which of the following statements is NOT true in relation to measure of dispersion?

The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum data values.
The most commonly used measure of dispersion is standard deviation (SD).
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.
The square root of the standard deviation is called the variance.

Question 18 of 20

18. Question

If correlational analyses indicate that higher levels of depression are related to poorer psychical health, can we infer that depression causes poor health?

No, because correlated variables do not indicated causal relationships
No, because correlated variables are not based on inferential statistics
Yes, because correlated variables indicated causal relationships
Yes, because correlated variables are based on inferential statistics

Question 19 of 20

19. Question

Your have just conducted a research study, if the responses of the participants significantly differ from what would be expected if there was no relationship among the variables in your study, then it would be appropriate for your to:

Use a different method to replicated use results
Obtain a larger sample to replicate results
Perform manipulation checks
Reject the null hypothesis
All of the above

Question 20 of 20

20. Question

Research ethics represent an important component of psychological research because:

They provide a set of statistical
They Provide a set of rules to protect participants
They provide a set of hypotheses to be tested
They provide a set standards for variable selection

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