Cambridge Court World School
Chapter-2
Methods of Enquiry in Psychology
Worksheet 1
Q1. Dr. Peterson is given a project to study the personality and life-style differences between
two ethnic cultures. Which methods will he prefer to use?
a. non-participant observation and case study
b. participant observation and questionnaire
c. nonparticipant observation and survey
d. participant observation and case study
Q2. Which of the following statements is true for case studies?
a. case study eliminates the observer’s bias
b. researcher draws general conclusions from a single case study
c. lets the researcher know how to take care of client’s problems completely
d. case study uses only one method for collecting information
Q3. If a psychologist gives you a few psychological tests to administer which expect you to
answer a few questions and solve practical puzzles by manipulating with your hands. What
kind of tests are these:
a. verbal and nonverbal
b. paper-pencil and verbal
c. performance and verbal
d. verbal, paper-pencil and performance
Q4. Dr. Gonzalez surveys how 8,000 students on her campus feel about a proposed tuition
increase. She selects 600 students for the survey. These 600 students and 8000 students
completely represent respectively:
a. experimental, control group
b. sample population
c. experimental group, population
d. sample, control group
Q5. You as a psychologist want to help your friend buy a psychological test. What would you
keep in mind while buying (choose the best option):
a. sample size, reliability and standardization
b. reliability, standardization and validity
c. standardization, validity and population
d. sample size, population and standardization
Q6. You study hundred children for a month, measuring how much TV they watch and how
many aggressive acts they perform. You find that TV watching and aggression are highly and
positively correlated. Base on this study, you
a. can conclude that watching TV causes children to behave more aggressively
b. can conclude that an aggressive personality causes children to watch more TV
c. can conclude that TV watching and aggression are causally related, although we cannot tell
which causes which
d. cannot draw any causal conclusions about the relation between TV watching and
aggression
Q7. Dr. Nagpal conducts an experiment. In one condition, participants perform a physical
task in a room, alone. In a second condition, participants perform the same task, but do so in
front of an audience of five people. Dr. Nagpal then measures how well each participant
performs. In this experiment, task performance represents
a. a sequential variable
b. the dependent variable
c. the independent variable
d. an extraneous variable
Q8. Dr. Peters wants to identify the characteristics of “corporate success”, so he studies an
extremely successful company for six months. He reads corporate documents, interviews
employees, gives managers psychological tests to identify their leadership style, and observes
performing jobs. Overall, Dr. Peters’ study best represents
a. a case study
b. naturalistic observation
c. a survey
d. an experiment
Q9. Objectivity is when two persons study a particular event independently, they should
arrive at the same conclusion.
a. True
b. False
Q10. If a psychologist gives you a few psychological tests to administer which expect you to
answer a few questions and solve practical puzzles by manipulating with your hands. What
kind of tests are these:
a. Verbal and Nonverbal
b. Paper-pencil and Verbal
c. Performance and Verbal
d. Verbal, Paper-pencil and Performance
Q11. Dr. Mehta surveys how 5,000 students on her campus feel about a proposed tuition
increase. She selects 600 students for the survey. These 400 students and 5000 students
completely represent respectively:
a. Experimental, Control group
b. Sample, Control group
c. Experimental group, Population
d. Sample, Population
Q 12. Which of the following is an example of observer bias?
a) You ask your tellow students to be participants in a study ot adult memory
b) You ask people from your church to participate in a study of family values
c) You develop an opinion of what you expect to see in an experiment
d) You allow a student to quit an experiment simply because he or she is bored
Q13. The main advantage of a survey is that:
a) only a small number of subjects need to be accessed
b) a large amount of data can be gathered c the chance of experimenter error is removed
d) subjects will not know if they are part of a control or experimental group
Q14. In an experiment to examine the effects of sleep deprivation on completion of a puzzle,
one group is allowed to sleep 8 hours while another group is made to stay awake. In this
experiment, the control group is:
a) the group that gets to sleep
b) the group that remains awake
cithe puzzle
d) the difference in time for each group to complete the puzzle
Q15. Which of the following scientific steps fulfills the goal of explanation?
a. Perceiving the question
b. Forming the hypothesis
c. Testing the hypothesis
d. Drawing conclusions
Q16. Random assignment of participants to the control group and the experimental group
ensures control over
a the extraneous variable
b) the dependent variable
c) the independent variable
d) the subjective variable
Q17. A researcher is interested in studying the effect of multitasking on memory.
Participants in Group A are given a list of words and asked to recall them after ten minutes.
Participants in Group B are instructed to watch a video clip while reading the list of words
and recall words after ten minutes. Identify the dependent variable.
a) Multitasking
c Number of words recalled
b) Watching a video clip
d) The group assignment
Q18. Dr. Khanna wants to identify the characteristics of “corporate success”, so he studies an
extremely successful company for six months. He reads corporate documents, interviews
employees, gives managers psychological tests to identify their leadership style, and observes
performing jobs. Overall, Dr. Khannas’ study best represents
a. Case study
b. Naturalistic observation
c. Survey
d. An experiment
Read the case given below and answer the questions that follow:
Mr. X started doing the research on learning attitude among the primary kids and he was able
to
Visit various schools and interact with the reachers and collected the data. The researcher was
able to provide the facts as accurately as possible and he tried to analyze the data with the
support of various diagrams and charts. Prior to beginning of the research, he was thinking
that the primary kIds are having a positive attitude towards learning and with the same view
he moved to do the research. In his research work he personally observed the primary kids
and interacted with them personally and collected data, it includes name of each child, birth
order, gender, religion, personality, interest, values and creativity level of the children ...etc.
Q19. Birth order, gender comes under which tvpe of information?
a) Demographic information
b) Physical information
c) Physiological data
d) Psychological information
Q20. Personality, interest, creativity level fall into which type of information?
a) Demographic information c) Physical information
b) Physiological data
d) Psychological information
Q21. Providing the research facts as accurately as possible is indicating research or enquiry .
a) Description
b) Prediction
c) Explanation
d) Control goal of psychological
Q22. Hypothesis with which Mr. X moved to conduct the research in the current case study
is:
a) Primary kids have a positive attitude towaras learning
b) Primary kids have neutral attitude towards learning
c) Learning is fun for primary kids
d) Learning in primary kids is affected by their attitude towards the teachers
Q23. What are the types of data collected in a psychological research?
(3)
Q24. “Case studies provide detailed in-depth depictions of people’s lives”. Define case study
and state any two characteristics of Case Study. (3)