Quiz

on
Process of research
By
Team 2
 The word RESEARCH is derived from

• Latin
• Greek
• German
• french
 All research begins with
_________
• Questions
• sampling
• Knowledge
• Cause
 understanding of human behavior and the
reasons that govern such behavior is
• Quantitative research
• Qualitative research
• Exploratory research
• Empirical research
collection of data that does not already exist

• Exploratory research
• Empirical research
• Primary research
• Secondary research
 To say that a theory is falsifiable
is to say that
• a. it is based on results that are not replicable.
• b. investigators have replaced it with a simpler
or more accurate theory.
• c. we can imagine results that would
contradict it.
• d. it is so vague that it fits any and all possible
results.
 Which of the following is a highly desirable
feature of a scientific study?
• a. selective attrition
• b. demand characteristics
• c. replicability
• d. illusory correlation
Prof. Dinesh desousa tried to repeat an
experiment that he read about in a scientific
journal using exactly the same procedures
as the original experiment. His results were
different. Therefore, the original
experiment was not ____________
• a. double-blind.
• b. parsimonious.
• c. statistically significant.
• d. replicable.
What does an Institutional Review Board do?

• a. It provides lists of people who are willing to

serve as volunteers in psychological experiments.
• b. It maintains statistics on the number and type
of experiments conducted at an institution.
• c. It helps experimenters evaluate the statistical
significance of their data.
• d. It judges whether proposed experiments are
ethical.
 Professor Bloggs wants to do a study to find
out whether women wearing red are more
attractive to men than women wearing other
colours. He's looking for a cause-effect
relationship. What type of study do you
recommend?
• Cross-sectional design
• Experimental design
• Quasi-experimental design
• Interior design
 The advantage of the experimental method as opposed to
correlational studies is that an
experiment

• a. is better suited to studies of unique or unusual

individuals.
• b. can consist of as little as one observation of a
single individual.
• c. can lead to the discovery of cause-and-effect
relationships.
• d. is easier to do and poses fewer ethical
problems.
Which of the following procedures would an experimenter use if she
were concerned about
demand characteristics?

• b. inform all participants about the hypothesis

being tested
• c. eliminate the control group
• d. conduct the study double-blind
• None of these
 question when they are told the survey was
sponsored by the
Republican Party and a different answer
when they are told it was sponsored by the
Democratic
Party. One possible reason for the
• a. the placebo effect.
difference is
• b. illusory correlation.
• c. standard deviation.
• d. none of these
 I've forgotten what quantitative data is.
Remind me.
• Data in numerical form
• Discreet data
• It's a broad term covering all types of data
• It refers to the results of statistical procedures
 Dr Potter, a lecturer at a school far, far
away, wants to measure attitudes
towards terrorism. Because he works at
a school, he grabs the first 50 students he
sees, and gives them his questionnaire.
•
What is his sampling method?
Immediate sampling
• Reverse sampling
• Random sampling
• Opportunity sampling
 Dr Potter, a lecturer at a school far, far
away, wants to measure attitudes towards
terrorism. Because he works at a school, he
grabs the first 50 students he sees, and gives
them his questionnaire. I managed to catch
Potter in a hallway, to give him a piece of my
mind about his terrorism 'study'. What do
you think I said?
• Stop making movies!
• Your results will not represent the overall population -
just the students at this school
• You should use a quantitative design, you damned fool!
• You have not adequately controlled for extraneous
variables
 What is a pilot study?

• A study using aeronautical personnel as the

sample group.
• A smaller study, used to test the waters for
any problems in the design and procedures
you plan to use.
• A smaller study, used when larger studies
are too expensive or impractical to carry
out.
• The first study in a new field is called the
Which of the following claims would be best
expressed by inductive reasoning?

• Your first quiz grade usually indicates how you

will do in the course.
• The final exam accounts for 30% of the course
grade.
• Late papers will not be accepted.
• Gravity's Rainbow is required reading in your
course
 Which of the following claims would be best expressed by
deductive reasoning?

• California's population growth rate slowed last

year.
• California residents appreciate their good
weather.
• California residents are residents of the
United States.
• More cars are registered in California than in
any other state.
 Which of the following arguments would lead to a deductive
conclusion?

• There was a mild winter this year, and previously whenever

there's been a mild winter the cherry crop suffers.
• The cherry crop needs at least a week of freezing
temperatures for best results, and this winter the
temperature stayed several degress above freezing.
• Primo noticed that whenever the skiing was good in the
winter, the cherry crop was profitable, and this year the
skiing was good.
• Not since 1972 have I seen a good cherry crop after a mild
winter, and this winter has been mild.
. Which of the following would be the
strongest argument for the claim, "The
weather for tomorrow will be beautiful"?
• Josue says, "Tomorrow is my birthday, and the weather on my
birthday is always beautiful."
• Bharati says, "The weather forecast in the newspaper is always
wrong, and tomorrow's forecast is for rain, so it will probably be
beautiful."
• Ivy says, "The weather forecast in the newspaper is always right,
and tomorrow's forecast is for a beautiful day, so that's what it
will be."
• Kwong says, "The barometric pressure has been rising for three
days, and whenever that happens we have beautiful weather for
the next week, so tomorrow is sure to be beautiful."
 P1: Anyone who lives in Los Angeles lives in the United States
P2: Anyone who lives in the United States lives in North America

• Clue: who lives in Los Angeles lives in North

America

Deductive
 P1: All physical objects are divisible
P2: All minds are indivisible
P3: Nothing can have and lack the same
property at the same time
• Clue: Minds cannot possibly be physical
objects

DEDUCTIVE,
P1: If the Statue of Liberty is in New York
City, then it is in New York State
P2: The Statue of Liberty is in New York
State
• Clue: The Statue of Liberty is in New York City

DEDUCTIVE
P1: All sorts of natural phenomena, such as lightening, heat, and earthquakes, seemed inexplicable in the past
P2: Science has explained these phenomena
P3: All sorts of natural phenomena, such as consciousness, cell differentiation, and
 quantum indeterminacy, seem inexplicable now

• Clue: : Science will eventually explain these

phenomena as well

INDUCTIVE,