A Level Psychology – Designing a reliable, ethical and valid experiment

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AQA A Level Psychology Research Methods A Level Psychology – Designing a reliable, ethical and valid experiment

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Question 1 of 22

1. Question
What is meant by “external” reliability?
- The research should produce similar results at different times
- The research should produce varying results at different times
- The results should be precisely identical in all repeats
- The results should be precisely identical throughout all cultures
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Question 2 of 22

2. Question
What is meant by the term “validity” in the context of experimentation?
- How well an experiment measures the variables that it claims to
- How ethical an experiment is
- How culturally relevant an experiment is
- How cheap an experiment is
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Question 3 of 22

3. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of validity?
- Inward validity
- Face validity
- Concurrent validity
- Ecological validity
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Question 4 of 22

4. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of validity?
- External validity
- Face validity
- Concurrent validity
- Temporal validity
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Question 5 of 22

5. Question
Which of these is the purpose of experimentation in psychology?
- To test a hypothesis
- To confirm a suspicion
- To reduce the chance of bias
- To eliminate theories
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Question 6 of 22

6. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of validity?
- Internal validity
- Face validity
- Ecological validity
- Temporal validity
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Question 7 of 22

7. Question
Which of these is the main advantage of an independent groups design?
- No order effects
- No ethical issues
- No possibility of bias
- No possibility of anomalies
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Question 8 of 22

8. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of validity?
- Media validity
- Concurrent validity
- Ecological validity
- Temporal validity
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Question 9 of 22

9. Question
Which of these is the main disadvantage of an independent groups design?
- Participant variables
- Ethical issues
- Order effects
- Scalability
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Question 10 of 22

10. Question
For what do the initials “BPS” stand?
- British Psychological Society
- British Psychological Studies
- Britain Psychology Society
- British Psychiatric Society
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Question 11 of 22

11. Question
Which of these is the main disadvantage of a repeated measures design?
- Order effects
- Ethical issues
- Bias
- Scalability
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Question 12 of 22

12. Question
At what age can a child legally give informed consent to an experiment?
- At 16
- At 18
- At 21
- At 14
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Question 13 of 22

13. Question
What is meant by the term “counterbalancing”?
- Mixing up the order in which participants do tasks
- Randomly selecting participants
- Randomly discarding participants
- Ensuring all participants do the same tasks in the same order
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Question 14 of 22

14. Question
Which of these is required for deception within an experiment to be allowed?
- Strong scientific justification
- Political oversight
- Medical authority
- Police involvement
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Question 15 of 22

15. Question
What name is given to a smaller study done before the main research?
- Pilot study
- Lantern study
- Pilot experiment
- Driver study
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Question 16 of 22

16. Question
Which of these should occur after an experiment has taken place?
- Debriefing
- Informed Consent
- Confidentiality
- Deception
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Question 17 of 22

17. Question
What is the main purpose of tight control in experiments?
- Eliminating extraneous variables
- Eliminating all bias
- Eliminating all ethical issues
- Eliminating all random chance
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Question 18 of 22

18. Question
What is meant by the term “reliable” in the context of experimentation?
- The presence of consistent results
- The presence of variable results
- A complete lack of ethical issues
- A complete lack of bias
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Question 19 of 22

19. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of reliability?
- Pejorative
- Internal
- External
- Inter-observer
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Question 20 of 22

20. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of reliability?
- Cross-study
- Internal
- External
- Inter-observer
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Question 21 of 22

21. Question
Which of these is not thought of as a common type of reliability?
- Cultural
- Internal
- External
- Inter-observer
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Question 22 of 22

22. Question
What is meant by “internal” reliability?
- Different parts of the experiment should give consistent results
- The researcher should be oblivious to the method
- There are no ethical issues
- The researcher has prejudice about the results
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