UNC PSYC 270 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWES
Which of the following is not a scientific "way of knowing"?
a. metaphysics
b. thinking
c. intuiting
d. observing - Answers- a. metaphysics
If I came up with a hypothesis using my own personal experiences, I would be using
____________.
a. empiricism
b. induction
c. deduction
d. metaphysical logic - Answers- a. empiricism
b. induction
IRB approval is required for any study involving human participants.
a. true
b. false - Answers- b. false
What are the two primary types of questions psychologists deal with?
a. open-ended and structured self-reporting
b. open-ended and quantitative
c. close-ended and structured self-reporting
d. close-ended and quantitative - Answers- a. open-ended and structured self-reporting
During the judgement phase of question writing, what is our primary concern?
a. are participants thinking of the same question?
b. are researchers thinking about the same question?
c. can participants translate internal psychological states into scales?
d. are researchers translating states into scales? - Answers- a. are participants thinking
of the same question?
Which of the following is not a threat to internal validity?
a. nonresponse bias
b. Hawthorne effect
c. regression to the mean
d. maturation - Answers- a. nonresponse bias
, What is/are the primary strength(s) of archival research?
a. high external validity
b. no response bias
c. high external validity
d. strong construct validity - Answers- a. high external validity
b. no response bias
If I asked how happy you are from 1 (not at all) to 7 (extremely), what type of scale
would I be using?
a. interval
b. ordinal
c. nominal
d. ratio - Answers- a. Interval
b. ordinal
Experimental studies have their limits. What is the primary limit?
a. difficult to conduct
b. low external validity
c. low construct validity
d. difficult to conduct ethically - Answers- a. difficult to conduct
b. low external validity
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a breach of ethics because ___________.
a. the participants were harmed
b. the participants were coerced into participating
c. no important information was gathered
d. the study was not IRB approved - Answers- a. the participants were harmed
What are the cornerstones of experimental research?
a. random assignment and manipulation
b. random assignment and measurement
c. random selection and manipulation
d. random selection and measurement - Answers- a. random assignment and
manipulation
Why do we care about random assignment?
a. it maximizes the chances that our groups will be similar
b. it helps our manipulation - Answers- a. if maximizes the chances that our group will
be similar
Which of the following is not a scientific "way of knowing"?
a. metaphysics
b. thinking
c. intuiting
d. observing - Answers- a. metaphysics
If I came up with a hypothesis using my own personal experiences, I would be using
____________.
a. empiricism
b. induction
c. deduction
d. metaphysical logic - Answers- a. empiricism
b. induction
IRB approval is required for any study involving human participants.
a. true
b. false - Answers- b. false
What are the two primary types of questions psychologists deal with?
a. open-ended and structured self-reporting
b. open-ended and quantitative
c. close-ended and structured self-reporting
d. close-ended and quantitative - Answers- a. open-ended and structured self-reporting
During the judgement phase of question writing, what is our primary concern?
a. are participants thinking of the same question?
b. are researchers thinking about the same question?
c. can participants translate internal psychological states into scales?
d. are researchers translating states into scales? - Answers- a. are participants thinking
of the same question?
Which of the following is not a threat to internal validity?
a. nonresponse bias
b. Hawthorne effect
c. regression to the mean
d. maturation - Answers- a. nonresponse bias
, What is/are the primary strength(s) of archival research?
a. high external validity
b. no response bias
c. high external validity
d. strong construct validity - Answers- a. high external validity
b. no response bias
If I asked how happy you are from 1 (not at all) to 7 (extremely), what type of scale
would I be using?
a. interval
b. ordinal
c. nominal
d. ratio - Answers- a. Interval
b. ordinal
Experimental studies have their limits. What is the primary limit?
a. difficult to conduct
b. low external validity
c. low construct validity
d. difficult to conduct ethically - Answers- a. difficult to conduct
b. low external validity
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a breach of ethics because ___________.
a. the participants were harmed
b. the participants were coerced into participating
c. no important information was gathered
d. the study was not IRB approved - Answers- a. the participants were harmed
What are the cornerstones of experimental research?
a. random assignment and manipulation
b. random assignment and measurement
c. random selection and manipulation
d. random selection and measurement - Answers- a. random assignment and
manipulation
Why do we care about random assignment?
a. it maximizes the chances that our groups will be similar
b. it helps our manipulation - Answers- a. if maximizes the chances that our group will
be similar
