Methods Of Enquiry In Psychology MCQ Quiz Questions And Answers

Understanding

Observation

Prediction

Achievement

 a) Theories, hypotheses, tests

 b) Self-report, experiments, correlations

 c) Behavioural, self-report, experimental

 d) Behavioural, self-report, physiological

 e) (a) and (d)

A) Valid, scientific, ethical, experimental, correlational

 b) Scientific, experimental, public, parsimonious, cumulative

C) Valid, reliable, public, parsimonious, cumulative

 d) Experimental, quasi-experimental, survey, correlational, meta-analytic

 e) None of these describe good research

 a) Manipulate

B) Correlate

 d) Validate

 e) Generalise

 a) Motivation, cognition, behavior

 b) Descriptive, inferential, evaluation

 c) Mean, average, sum

 d) Mean, median, mode

 e) Quantity, quality, dispersion

A) When researchers report and comment on behavior, without attempting to quantify it, they are using a qualitative research method.

 b) Qualitative methods can include coding, grouping, and collecting observations.

C) The way people evaluate the friendliness of the people they meet illustrates some features of a qualitative approach to psychological research.

D) All of the above.

 a) Nominal, ordinal, internal, external

 b) Internal, external, quasi, survey

 c) Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio

 d) Interval, ratio, quasi, survey

 e) Internal, external, interval, ratio

 a) Use a different method to replicate the results

 b) Obtain a larger sample to replicate results

 c) Perform manipulation checks

 d) Reject the null hypothesis

 d) Reject the null hypothesis

A) Conceptualisation of data

 b)collection

C) Paradigms

D) Hypothesis.