Research Design Approaches and Issues MCQs
Research Design Approaches and Issues MCQs
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Research design plays a crucial role in the success and validity of a research study. It encompasses various decisions and considerations that shape the overall research process. Through MCQss.com's interactive MCQs, you can explore different research design approaches and gain insights into key issues that researchers face.
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1: Research approach with manipulated variables and random assignment is called experimental design
A. True
B. False
2: Research approach that resembles experimental research but is based on the use of preexisting groups [quasi-independent variables (IVs) is known as quasi experimental design
A. True
B. False
3: Incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true is called
A. Type l error
B. Type ll error
C. Type lll error
D. None of above
4: Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false is known as
A. Type l error
B. Type ll error
C. Type lll error
D. None of above
5: Failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false is known as
A. Type l error
B. Type ll error
C. Type lll error
D. None of above
6: _______ research is a research where no variables are manipulated
A. Causal research
B. Correlational research
C. Non correlational research
D. None of above
7: When the research design enables you to test cause-and-effect relationships is known as
A. Causal research
B. Correlational research
C. Non correlational research
D. None of above
8: Research approach in which one or more variables are manipulated and subjects are randomly assigned to condition is called
A. True experimental approach
B. True experimental study
C. True non experimental study
D. All are true
9: When participants are randomly assigned to the conditions of the study is called
A. Proper assignment.
B. Research assignment
C. Random assignment
D. Non random assignment
10: Research in which the conditions of an experiment are distributed across participants such that each participant is in only one condition is between subject design
A. True
B. False
11: Type of experimental design in which participants are exposed to all of the conditions is known as
A. Between subject design
B. Within Subjects design
C. All subjects design
D. All of above
12: _______ is variable that is manipulated in an experiment
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
13: _______ is variable that reflects the impact of the manipulated or independent variable in research
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
14: ______________ (IV) that is naturally occurring (e.g., race and gender) and as a consequence is not assigned at random is known as quasi - IV
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
15: ______________ (IV) that is naturally occurring (e.g., race and gender) and as a consequence is not assigned at random is known as quasi - IV
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
16: ______________ (IV) that is naturally occurring (e.g., race and gender) and as a consequence is not assigned at random is known as quasi - IV
A. Independent variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
17: Bonferroni Adjustment is adjustment for Type I error by dividing the alpha level (.05) by the number of statistical tests performed to create a new more stringent ______level
A. Alpha
B. Beta
C. Gamma
D. Meta
18: When the critical region for significance is spread across both tails of the distribution is known as
A. Two tailed significance test
B. Three tailed significance test
C. One tailed significance test
D. Two tailed non significance test
19: When the critical region for significance is limited to one tail of the distribution (more lenient than two-tailed tests) is known as
A. Two tailed significance test
B. Three tailed significance test
C. One tailed significance test
D. Two tailed non significance test
20: Probability of rejecting Ho (the null hypothesis), assuming Ho is false called as power
A. True
B. False
21: Alternative hypothesis is hypothesis you have stated will be true if the null hypothesis is rejected
A. True
B. False
22: Threats to _____ validity are factors that undermine the ability of your research to ascertain the influence of an independent variable (IV) on a dependent variable (DV)
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
23: Threats to _____ validity are factors that undermine the ability of your research to ascertain the influence of an independent variable (IV) on a dependent variable (DV)
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
24: Threats to _____ validity are factors that undermine the ability of your research to ascertain the influence of an independent variable (IV) on a dependent variable (DV)
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
25: Threats to _____ validity are factors that undermine the ability of your research to ascertain the influence of an independent variable (IV) on a dependent variable (DV)
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
26: One of Campbell and Stanley’s (1963) threats to internal validity in which something happens between experimental treatments to influence the results is known as history
A. True
B. False
27: Threats to _____ validity in which capacities of the participants may change as a result of fatigue, illness, age, or hunger that affect the intervention is known as
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
28: Threats to _______ involving multiple testing situations in which the first affects how participants respond to subsequent tests
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Simple validity
D. All of above
29: Solomon Four Group Design is Pretest, posttest research design involving four conditions; takes into account the possible effect of sensitization in responding to the pretest measures
A. True
B. False
30: Solomon Four Group Design is Pretest, posttest research design involving four conditions; takes into account the possible effect of sensitization in responding to the pretest measures
A. True
B. False
31: Instrumentation is one of Campbell and Stanley’s (1963) threats to internal validity in which changes in equipment affect judgments/ measurements that are made
A. True
B. False
32: Operational definitions is describing a _______ in terms of the processes used to measure or quantify it
A. Variable
B. Constant
C. Non variable
D. All of above
33: One of Campbell and Stanley’s (1963) threats to internal validity when participants are selected on the basis of extreme scores (e.g., high or low intelligence) and their scores move toward the mean on subsequent testing is called Statistical Regression
A. True
B. False
34: When preexisting characteristics of participants may affect scores on the _________ is known as
A. Dependent variable
B. Independent variable
C. Constant variable
D. All of above
35: Threats to _______ in which people drop out of studies in a nonequivalent manner (e.g., more older adults than younger adults drop out of the intervention than out of the control group) is known as Experimental Mortality
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Complex validity
D. None of above
36: Threats to _______ in which with quasi-experimental designs with multiple groups, some preexisting aspect of the groups might be confounded with the variable of interest is known as Selection–Maturation Interaction
A. Internal validity
B. External validity
C. Complex validity
D. None of above
37: Cues available to participants in a study that may enable them to determine the _______ is called Demand Characteristics
A. Purpose of study
B. Purpose of participants
C. Purpose of research
D. All of above
38: Research design in which participants are unaware of the conditions to which they have been assigned is known as
A. Single-Blind Experiment
B. Double-Blind Experiment
C. Placebo experiment
D. All of above
39: Research design in which both the participant and the researcher are unaware of the condition to which the participant has been assigned is known as
A. Single-Blind Experiment
B. Double-Blind Experiment
C. Placebo experiment
D. All of above
40: Role Attitude Cues participants approach research with a particular attitude, such as cooperativeness; may affect _______
A. Experiment
B. Results
C. Deduction
D. Hypotheses
41: Attitude of research participant who tries to help the _____ is called Cooperative Attitude
A. Researcher
B. Scientist
C. Participants
D. All of above
42: Attitude of participant who is concerned about performance evaluation is called Defensive or Apprehensive Attitude
A. True
B. False
43: Attitude of a participant who wants to undermine the research is called
A. Negative attitude
B. Positive attitude
C. Neutral attitude
D. None of above
44: _______ is explanation about the purpose of research that hides the true nature of the study; used to reduce demand characteristics
A. Cover story
B. Cover letter
C. Job letter
D. None of above
45: __________ is a form of deception that occurs through omission, rather than through commission; typically involves less than full explanation of the purposes of the research
A. Passive Deception
B. Active Deception
C. Direct Deception
D. Indirect Deception
46: Situation where there is commission as part of the research, either in the informed consent or in the research procedures themselves, misrepresents the research is known as
A. Passive Deception
B. Active Deception
C. Direct Deception
D. Indirect Deception
47: Confederates is someone who participates in a research project but is actually assisting the experimenter
A. True
B. False
48: Pilot test used small number of participants to test aspects of the research and receive feedback on measures and/or manipulations
A. True
B. False
49: Manipulation check is a questions posed in research, typically at the end, to assess whether the participants were aware of the level of the independent variable to which they were assigned
A. True
B. False
50: Outcome in which scores cluster at the top of the maximum value; creates difficulty in evaluating group differences is known as
A. Ceiling effect
B. Floor effect
C. Chair effect
D. None of above
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