. A psychologist has designed a new psychometric test to measure extroversion. She gives 30 participants both her test and an established personality test, and compares their scores on the two tests.What is she trying to establish by doing this?

What term refers to whether research relates to everyday life?

Which of the following is not related to external validity?

What is meant by criterion validity?

. If a researcher checks to see if participants have answered questions that ask about the same thing in the same or similar way, what is this?

Two different versions of a personality test are given to participants and then the results compared. What type of validity is being checked here?

Which feature of science refers to the importance of being able to refute a psychologist’s claim?

What type of reliability is it when there is a consistency in the recordings made by two or more different observers?

What is the name for the type of reliability that involves dividing a test into two parts and comparing scores on both parts of the test?

Which of these is associated with the term ‘demand characteristics’?

Which is a way of addressing the issue of demand characteristics in an experiment?

Peer review of a piece of new psychological research should be conducted by:

 What is the name given to data before any analysis is performed?

What is the name given to data that is collected directly by researchers themselves, rather than obtaining it from another person or source?

Which is an example of secondary data?

Which of these descriptive statistics would it be possible to use with nominal data?

Which is an example of qualitative data?

Which is an example of interval level data?

Which of these is an advantage of secondary data?

Which of these different types of data would not include any information in the form of words?

What type of data was collected in the Piliavin et al. study for the dependent variable of length of time that it took for help to be offered?

Which of these is nominal data?

Which of these best describes the type of data collected in Loftus and Palmer’s study investigating the effects of language on memory?

What name is given to the type of data collected directly by the researchers?

What type of data is displayed in a histogram?

Which inferential statistical test requires at least ordinal level data to examine if there is a difference between the data collected from different people in each condition of an experiment?

Look at the following data set from a condition where participants were timed (in seconds) completing a task in a crisis situation.{36 45 51 67 54 19 50 45 27 76 54 45} What is the range of this data set?

Under what circumstances would you use the Mann-Whitney U test?

Below is some data from three people in a study that recorded the reaction time in seconds taken to solve a puzzle when background noise was being played:25.89, 16.21, 20.92 ~ 26, 16, 21 What does the symbol (~)in between these sets of data mean?

One billion (1,000,000,000) is a very big number. The brain is estimated to have one hundred billion neurons(nerve cells). What is this written in standard form?

What is a weakness of using a mode as a measure of central tendency?

Which of the following is one of the criteria for use of a parametric inferential statistical test?

Which of these inferential statistical tests does not require the data to be ranked as part of the calculation? 

What is 7.864 written to two significant figures?

What is 2,830 written in standard form?

What is a coding frame?

What type of inferential statistical tests assume that the data used in the analysis are drawn from a normally distributed population?

Which is a requirement of a parametric test?

Which of these best describes what the variance is?

For which of the following would it be appropriate to use a line graph to display the data?

Which of these is not a measure of  dispersion?

What is meant by the term ‘socially desirable responses’ in psychological research?

What is the probability of a significant result occurring by chance where the significance level is p≤0.025?

Which best describes what a ‘type 1 error’ refers to?

Read the following hypothesis .H₁: “Women who earn above average salaries will score significantly higher on a confidence test than women who earn below average salaries.”

What is the independent variable in this hypothesis?

What is the name given to the hypothesis that predicts no difference between two conditions in an experiment?