Experimental Psychology MCQs
Experimental Psychology MCQs
Try to answer these 20 Experimental Psychology MCQs and check your understanding of the Experimental Psychology subject. Scroll down and let's begin!
1: Archival research, naturalistic observation, survey research and case studies are _______ research.
A. Descriptive
B. Independent
C. Experimental
D. Hypothesis
2: Correlational studies are not well-suited for answering _________ research questions.
A. Causal
B. Predictor
C. Regressions
D. Pearson r
3: In an experiment, the independent variable is _______ while the dependent variable is _______.
A. Manipulated; measured
B. Measured; manipulated
C. Control; manipulated
D. Measured; informed consent
4: Scientific hypotheses are ________ and falsifiable.
A. Empirical
B. Testable
C. Facts
D. None of these
5: A key advantage of random assignment is that it makes ________ about the same in each group.
A. We can compare scores before and after a treatment in the same participants
B. Will not return to baseline
C. Individual differences of participants
D. The mean difference between groups
6: Environmental ____ is affected by environmental complexity, change, and resources.
A. Environmental scanning
B. Uncertainty
C. How dependent they are on each other
D. Knowledge, tools, and techniques
7: In a factorial design, there is/are at least ______ independent variable(s).
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
8: Random selection enhances _____ validity and random assignment enhances _____ validity.
A. They can inform external validity.
B. The fact that the two variables are measured
C. External validity; internal validity
D. Internal validity
9: Survey is to case study as _______ is to __________.
A. Experimental; descriptive
B. Descriptive; experimental
C. One participant; many participants
D. Many participants; one participant
10: When random assignment fails to create equivalent groups, the problem of _____ occurs.
A. Sampling error
B. Self-selection
C. Third variables
D. External validity
11: Ethics need to be considered when ________ scientific research
A. Conducting and reviewing
B. Designing and reviewing
C. Designing, conducting and reviewing
D. Reviewing and publishing
12: The corpus callosum _____.
A. Main communication pathway between left and right hemispheres
B. A band of nerve fibres
C. All
13: _____ returns only the attributes requested, in the order in which they are requested.
A. PROJECT
B. SELECT
C. UNION
D. DIFFERENCE
14: ________ is the tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs.
A. Experimenter bias
B. Sampling bias
C. Confirmation bias
D. Illusory correlation
15: A major limitation of a two group design is that ____.
A. ​is extremely difficult to interpret
B. ​decreases the chances of demonstrating a significant mean difference
C. Tends to reduce the differences between the groups
D. May not provide a complete picture of the relationship between the variables
16: Defining variables in practical terms is called ____.
A. Operationalization
B. The experimenter effect
C. The placebo effect
D. Extrinsic motivation
17: Double-blind studies control for ________.
A. The experimenter effect
B. The placebo effect
C. The placebo effect & the experimenter effect
D. Extrinsic motivation
18: For the repeated-measures t statistic, df = _____.
A. N−1
B. N−2
C. N−3
D. N−4
19: Research methods designed for making careful, systematic observations are called ____.
A. Experimental methods
B. Descriptive methods
C. Correlationa
D. Case studies
20: In the dummy hands study conducted by pavani, spence, and driver (2000), _______.
A. Touch dominated vision.
B. Reaction time was the independent variable.
C. Dummy hands had an influence even if they were misaligned with the participants' real hands.
D. Participants seem to have experienced an illusory sensation of touch.
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