Ashford PSY326 2021 June Week 2 Quiz Latest

PSY326 Research Methods

Week 2 Quiz

Question 1A research question is a declarative statement which can be tested to determine the probability of it being true or false.

True

False

 Question 2A researcher uses observation of children and their parents in a busy fast food restaurant to count the number of times certain behaviors occur within a one hour period. This research is _____.

  

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

experimental, quantitative

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

Question 3Which of the following is NOT a requirement for a study to be a true experiment?

manipulation of an independent variable

random assignment of participants to groups or conditions

control of extraneous variables

purposive sampling to recruit participants

Question 4A researcher uses observation of children and their parents in a busy fast food restaurant to prepare a vivid description of the behaviors and interactions among people present. This research is _____.

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

experimental, quantitative

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

 Question 5A research approach that uses words or images as data instead of numbers is called _____.

descriptive

non-experimental

qualitative

quantitative

Question 6Hypothesis testing is done in quantitative research but not in qualitative research.

True

False

Question 7In quantitative research, the hypothesis to be tested must be specified before data collection begins.

True

False

Question 8An educational researcher wants to find out if the amount of homework assigned to middle school students affects the students’ level of academic self-efficacy. Several schools are selected and invited to participate. In each school, participating classes are randomly assigned to receive either three hours of homework on weeknights or less than one hour of homework each night for the duration of the study. Self-efficacy of the students in the two groups of classes is measured and compared. This research is _____.

  

descriptive, qualitative, non-experimental

 experimental, quantitative

correlational, non-experimental, quantitative

 descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative

Question 9A non-experimental research approach that examines relationships between variables is called _____.

correlational

descriptive

experimental

quasi-experimental

Question 10A research approach that can explain a cause and effect relationship between variables, and is characterized by manipulation of an independent variable, random assignment of participants to groups or conditions, and control of unwanted variables is called _____.

correlational

descriptive

experimental

quasi-experimental