Practice questions from lecture

Question 1

Explain an advantage of the repeated measures experimental
design.

Answer 1

• It is a cheap method of experimental design
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Question 2

Memory experiment on a class where half had to memorise a list of words using visual
imagery, and the other half had to memorise the list using verbal
repetition.

What kind of experimental design was used in this experiment?

Question 3

Memory experiment on a class where half had to memorise a list of words using visual
imagery, and the other half had to memorise the list using verbal
repetition.

Explain one advantage of this experimental design.

Question 4

Memory experiment on a class where half had to memorise a list of words using visual
imagery, and the other half had to memorise the list using verbal
repetition.

Explain one disadvantage of this experimental design.

Question 5

Identify one kind of experimental design

Question 6

What does emprical mean?

Question 7

The first step towards conducting a research project is to?

Question 8

What is a hypothesis?

Question 9

A researcher watched the behaviour of students in the student’s union bar, and wrote notes about what she saw. Which research method was she using?

Question 10

A researcher wanted to know what it was like to live in a student dormitory, so she rented a room in a campus dormitory and lived there for one term, keeping notes about her experiences. What research method did she use?

Question 11

Which research method does not involve control of an IV?

Question 12

A researcher wanted to understand the possible causes of a famous artist’s creativity. The researcher collected all of the available information about the artist, talked with the artist, and gave her psychological tests. Which research method was used?

Question 13

What is a limitation of case studies?

Question 14

Which research method is useful to find out about something which is very unusual?

Question 15

What is a limitation of observation studies?

Question 16

A researcher wants to find out if personality is related to ability to deal with life stress. Which research method would be most practical?

Question 17

What is correlation?

Question 18

What does a correlation coefficient do?

Question 19

What do the numerical and sign (+/-) aspects of a correlation
coefficient show?

Question 20

What is a positive correlation?

Question 21

Which of the following coefficients shows a moderate strength negative correlation?
a) 0.03
b) -0.1
c) -0.6
d) -0.3
e) -0.03

Question 22

Which of the following coefficients shows a strong positive correlation?
a) 0.3
b) 0.1
c) -0.8
d) 0.6
e) 0.05

Question 23

What is one strength of correlational designs/analysis?

Question 24

What is one weakness of correlational designs/analysis?