Mock

Question 1

mundane realism

Answer 1

How a study mirrors the real world

Question 2

internal validity

Answer 2

measures what its supposed to measure

Question 3

replication

Answer 3

repeating an experiment to see if the same results can be achieved

Question 4

null hypothesis structure

Answer 4

There will be no difference/relationship between ____ and ___ and any difference/relationship that does occur does so by chance.

Question 5

measures of central tendency

Answer 5

mean, mode, median

Question 6

measures of dispersion

Answer 6

range, standard deviation

Question 7

what does ‘standard deviation’ mean

Answer 7

• Provides a rough idea about the dispersion of the scores which are around the mean
• The smaller the standard deviation, the narrower the range

Question 8

when is normal dispersion likely to occur

Answer 8

when we have a large population

Question 9

Likert scale questions

Answer 9

provide a scale for participants to select their strengths of agreement or disagreement

Question 10

dichotomous questions

Answer 10

offering two choices

Question 11

semantic differential questions

Answer 11

bi-polar words present with spaces between them for participants to indicate the point between the two representing their strength of feeling.

Question 12

positive correlation

Answer 12

as one variable increases, the other does too

Question 13

negative variable

Answer 13

as one variable increases, the other decreases

Question 14

zero correlation

Answer 14

the two variables are not related at all

Question 15

who has developed ethnic guidelines

Answer 15

The British Psychological Society

Question 16

case studies

Answer 16

in-depth investigations of an individual person or a small group such as a family

Question 17

event sampling

Answer 17

• Recording all behaviors over a period of time every time they occur
• Choosing specific behaviors to focus on

Question 18

natural experiments

Answer 18

researcher takes advantage of a naturally occurring change in the IV

Question 19

quasi experiments

Answer 19

• participants cannot be randomly allocated
• for example, in an experiment measuring the difference in sex, participants have to be in groups of males and females

Question 20

weakness of quasi experiment

Answer 20

no cause and effect established

Question 21

co-variables

Answer 21

variables causing correlation

Question 22

content analysis

Answer 22

allows for a researcher to analyse different qualitive data and turn it into quantitive data.

Question 23

time sampling

Answer 23

• Make observations for short intervals within a given period of time
• Allows for us to write detailed notes

Question 24

ordinal data

Answer 24

ordered or ranked

Question 25

interval data

Answer 25

can exist bellow zero- temperature

Question 26

ratio

Answer 26

cant exist below zero- money, height

Question 27

nominal data

Answer 27

classified into categories

Question 28

why are histograms used

Answer 28

show the distribution of data

Question 29

what type of data does a histogram display

Answer 29

continuous data

Question 30

different types of external validity

Answer 30

ecological, population, temporal

Question 31

population validity

Answer 31

how well it can be generalized to the population

Question 32

temporal validity

Answer 32

how well results can be generalized to different time periods

Question 33

what is a method of dealing with issues of reliability?

Answer 33

pilot study

Question 34

improving validity

Answer 34

controlling extraneous variables ensuring variables have been fully operationalised

Question 35

quota sampling

Answer 35

Decides which characteristics matter (e.g. gender, age) Works out how many people they need in each category Fills each group until the quota is met Stops when all quotas are full NOT RANDOM

Question 36

systematic

Answer 36

Start with a complete list of the population Choose a starting point (usually randomly) Select every nth person after that

Question 37

stratified

Answer 37

Split the population into groups (strata) based on characteristics Work out the proportion of each group in the population Randomly select participants from each group in the same proportions RANDOM