PSYC 101 FINAL EXAM SCRIPT PAPER
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULLY
SOLVED PREMIUM RESOURCE
●● subject or participant
Answer: an individual person or animal a researcher studies.
●● Sample
Answer: a collection of subjects researchers study. Researchers use
samples because they cannot study the entire population.
●● Population
Answer: the collection of people or animals from which researchers
draw a sample. Researchers study the sample and generalize their results
to the population.
●● The Purpose of Research
Answer: -To find ways to measure and describe behavior
-To understand why, when, and how events occur
-To apply this knowledge to solving real-world problems
●● The scientific method
,Answer: a standardized way of making observations, gathering data,
forming theories, testing predictions, and interpreting results.
●● A theory
Answer: an explanation that organizes separate pieces of information in
a coherent way.
●● replicable
Answer: when others can repeat an experiment and get the same results.
●● hypothesis
Answer: a testable prediction of what will happen given a certain set of
conditions.
●● naturalistic observation
Answer: researchers collect information about subjects by observing
them unobtrusively, without interfering with them in any way.
●● case study
Answer: The researcher collects data about the subject through
interviews, direct observation, psychological testing, or examination of
documents and records about the subject.
●● survey
, Answer: a way of getting information about a specific type of behavior,
experience, or event. When using this method, researchers give people
questionnaires or interview them to obtain information.
●● experiment
Answer: a researcher manipulates or changes a particular variable under
controlled conditions while observing resulting changes in another
variable or variables.
●● Occam's razor
Answer: maintains that researchers should apply the simplest
explanation possible to any set of observations.
●● correlation
Answer: measurement of the strength of the relationship between two
variables
●● reliability
Answer: if a test produces the same result when researchers administer it
to the same group of people at different times, it has reliability.
●● Validity
Answer: A test is valid if it actually measures the quality it claims to
measure.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FULLY
SOLVED PREMIUM RESOURCE
●● subject or participant
Answer: an individual person or animal a researcher studies.
●● Sample
Answer: a collection of subjects researchers study. Researchers use
samples because they cannot study the entire population.
●● Population
Answer: the collection of people or animals from which researchers
draw a sample. Researchers study the sample and generalize their results
to the population.
●● The Purpose of Research
Answer: -To find ways to measure and describe behavior
-To understand why, when, and how events occur
-To apply this knowledge to solving real-world problems
●● The scientific method
,Answer: a standardized way of making observations, gathering data,
forming theories, testing predictions, and interpreting results.
●● A theory
Answer: an explanation that organizes separate pieces of information in
a coherent way.
●● replicable
Answer: when others can repeat an experiment and get the same results.
●● hypothesis
Answer: a testable prediction of what will happen given a certain set of
conditions.
●● naturalistic observation
Answer: researchers collect information about subjects by observing
them unobtrusively, without interfering with them in any way.
●● case study
Answer: The researcher collects data about the subject through
interviews, direct observation, psychological testing, or examination of
documents and records about the subject.
●● survey
, Answer: a way of getting information about a specific type of behavior,
experience, or event. When using this method, researchers give people
questionnaires or interview them to obtain information.
●● experiment
Answer: a researcher manipulates or changes a particular variable under
controlled conditions while observing resulting changes in another
variable or variables.
●● Occam's razor
Answer: maintains that researchers should apply the simplest
explanation possible to any set of observations.
●● correlation
Answer: measurement of the strength of the relationship between two
variables
●● reliability
Answer: if a test produces the same result when researchers administer it
to the same group of people at different times, it has reliability.
●● Validity
Answer: A test is valid if it actually measures the quality it claims to
measure.
