PSYC 255 Final Exam Questions and
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)? - Answer Ethics/Participants oversight
Who can be a member of the IRB? - Answer Lawyer, Professor, Member of community
What is an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)? - Answer Animal welfare
oversight
Who can be a member of the IACUC? - Answer Professor, Veterinarian, Member of community
What is the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)? - Answer Ensures data ethics, posts findings of
fraud, provide education
What is the role of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)? - Answer Protects
workers and environment from safety and health hazards
What factors determine the size of a research project? - Answer Funding availability
What is the importance of knowing the order in the structure of research and what is the order?
- Answer Ensures proper execution of research steps. Science Director → Principal investigator
→ Post doctoral researcher → Doctoral student → Master's student → Post-Bacceralurette →
Undergraduate
Who is Wilhelm Wundt? - Answer Introduced science to psychology. Before psychology was
philosophy and religion
What is empiricism? - Answer Understanding the world through careful observations Do
things the same way in replications.
What is replication in research? - Answer Repeating a study to confirm its findings Replication
+ extention: Replicate 50% of og study (no errors) other 50% is your indiviual hypothesis
, What are empirical questions? - Answer Ask questions that have an answer, can be answered
by systematic observation
What is Public knowledge? - Answer When you get results you have to post to the public
(Seminars, classes, publications)
What is the hypothetical deductive method? - Answer When you have data to support a
hypothesis, you cannot say it's proven, you say it is supported and continue work.
(Research cycle is continuous)
What is the difference between basic and applied research? - Answer Basic research is for
learning, applied research is for problem-solving
What is the difference between quantitative and categorical data? - Answer Quantitative is
numerical, categorical is qualitative
What is the dependent variable? - Answer What is being measured
What is the independent variable? - Answer What is changing or varying
What is an operational definition and why do we care? - Answer A way to measure or describe
something. Why do we care?: The things we want to study are not measurable, so we have to
describe how we are doing things.
What is power? - Answer Calculated to find sample size, tells you how good the study is (0-1)
What is power analysis? - Answer Determines when to stop a study based on sample size
What is statistical significance? - Answer P-value: less than 0.05 reject null, significant
Ex: F(3, 24) = 7.18, P = 0.03
What is a p-value? - Answer Greater than 0.05 Fail to reject null
Ex: F(5,15) = 8.7, P = 0.07
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Edition.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)? - Answer Ethics/Participants oversight
Who can be a member of the IRB? - Answer Lawyer, Professor, Member of community
What is an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)? - Answer Animal welfare
oversight
Who can be a member of the IACUC? - Answer Professor, Veterinarian, Member of community
What is the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)? - Answer Ensures data ethics, posts findings of
fraud, provide education
What is the role of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)? - Answer Protects
workers and environment from safety and health hazards
What factors determine the size of a research project? - Answer Funding availability
What is the importance of knowing the order in the structure of research and what is the order?
- Answer Ensures proper execution of research steps. Science Director → Principal investigator
→ Post doctoral researcher → Doctoral student → Master's student → Post-Bacceralurette →
Undergraduate
Who is Wilhelm Wundt? - Answer Introduced science to psychology. Before psychology was
philosophy and religion
What is empiricism? - Answer Understanding the world through careful observations Do
things the same way in replications.
What is replication in research? - Answer Repeating a study to confirm its findings Replication
+ extention: Replicate 50% of og study (no errors) other 50% is your indiviual hypothesis
, What are empirical questions? - Answer Ask questions that have an answer, can be answered
by systematic observation
What is Public knowledge? - Answer When you get results you have to post to the public
(Seminars, classes, publications)
What is the hypothetical deductive method? - Answer When you have data to support a
hypothesis, you cannot say it's proven, you say it is supported and continue work.
(Research cycle is continuous)
What is the difference between basic and applied research? - Answer Basic research is for
learning, applied research is for problem-solving
What is the difference between quantitative and categorical data? - Answer Quantitative is
numerical, categorical is qualitative
What is the dependent variable? - Answer What is being measured
What is the independent variable? - Answer What is changing or varying
What is an operational definition and why do we care? - Answer A way to measure or describe
something. Why do we care?: The things we want to study are not measurable, so we have to
describe how we are doing things.
What is power? - Answer Calculated to find sample size, tells you how good the study is (0-1)
What is power analysis? - Answer Determines when to stop a study based on sample size
What is statistical significance? - Answer P-value: less than 0.05 reject null, significant
Ex: F(3, 24) = 7.18, P = 0.03
What is a p-value? - Answer Greater than 0.05 Fail to reject null
Ex: F(5,15) = 8.7, P = 0.07
