Practical

Question 1

Practice question?

Answer 1

Is there a relationship between gullibility and sarcasm?

Question 2

Aim?

Answer 2

To test Freud s theory of psycho-sexual stages by investigating the relationship between gullibility and sarcasm

Question 3

Alternate hypothesis?

Answer 3

There will be a significant positive correlation between gullibility (as scored on a scale of 1-10) and sarcasm.

Question 4

How many Likert scales did we use?

Answer 4

2

Question 5

What were the 2 questions?

Answer 5

• Please rate how gullible you are 1-10

- Please rate how sarcastic you are 1-10

Question 6

1-10 , 1 being?

Answer 6

1 being not at all and 10 being very

Question 7

Ethics?

Answer 7

• Informed the P’s of withdrawal
• We debriefed the P’s
• we would not breach confidentiality guidelines by publishing names

Question 8

Procedure?

Answer 8

• Each P’s was approached in the canteen on a Wednesday afternoon and asked if they minded competing a short questionnaire about their personality
• they were asked to rate how gullible and sarcastic they were on a likert scale
• P’s were then debriefed

Question 9

What type of sampling was used?

Answer 9

Opertunity

Question 10

How many times was the procedure carried out?

Answer 10

10

Question 11

What was the sample?

Answer 11

10 participants who were all students both male and female aged between 16 and 19

Question 12

what design of correlation was used?

Answer 12

spearmans rho

Question 13

what type of data was collected?

Answer 13

ordinal , quantitative data