Module 1 Quiz PDF - NEUR1020 - 2024

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This is a module 1 quiz from NEUR1020, a psychology course in 2024. It focuses on research methodology and evaluation.

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Links [NEUR1020] The Brain and Behavioural Sciences (St Lucia). Semester 2, 2024 NEUR1020_7460_62229 Assessment Module Quizzes Review Test Submission: Module 1 Quiz Review Test Submission: Module 1 Quiz User Lilly Phillips...

Links [NEUR1020] The Brain and Behavioural Sciences (St Lucia). Semester 2, 2024 NEUR1020_7460_62229 Assessment Module Quizzes Review Test Submission: Module 1 Quiz Review Test Submission: Module 1 Quiz User Lilly Phillips Course [NEUR1020] The Brain and Behavioural Sciences (St Lucia). Semester 2, 2024 Test Module 1 Quiz Started 08/08/24 16:07 Submitted 08/08/24 16:32 Status Completed Attempt Score 6.5 out of 7 points Time Elapsed 25 minutes out of 25 minutes Results Submitted Answers, Correct Answers, Incorrectly Answered Questions Displayed Question 1 In order of more control to less control, what order do the research methodologies follow? Selected Answer: Experiments, Correlation Designs, Surveys, Case History, Natural Observation, Introspection Correct Answer: Experiments, Correlation Designs, Surveys, Case History, Natural Observation, Introspection Question 2 Imagine you are performing personnel assessments of applicants for a librarian position. Librarians are often thought of as being quiet, reserved, and introverted. You have the results of one applicant's self-report personality measure which indicates they possess all of these qualities: quiet, reserved, and introverted. However, their last role was as a motivational speaker. This may be a truthful assessment of this applicant, or it may be indicative of: Selected Answer: Socially desirable responding Correct Answer: Socially desirable responding Question 3 A researcher is interested in investigating the Stroop e"ect in #rst-year psychology students. They run the Stroop experiment in two #rst-year psychology tutorial groups, with one group showing results supporting the e"ect and the other group not. Who are the population and who the sample? Selected Answer: The population is the NEUR1020 cohort and the sample is both of the participating tutorial groups Correct Answer: The population is the NEUR1020 cohort and the sample is both of the participating tutorial groups Question 4 Veronica was participating in some research at her university. She found researcher very handsome and wanted to impress him. When completing a questionnaire for the research, Veronica found herself trying to answer in the way he might want, knowing that he would see her answers. Veronica was showing ___ ___ called the _____ _____. Selected Answer: Subject Bias, Hawthorne E"ect Correct Answer: Subject Bias, Hawthorne E"ect Question 5 What paradigm considers a 'blank slate' as its root metaphor? Selected Answer: The behavioural paradigm Correct Answer: The behavioural paradigm Question 6 Jonathan wants to determine whether female psychology students are kinder than male psychology students, and he hypothesises that female students will be kinder. To conduct his experiment, he randomly stops students and asks each of them if they will lend him either $1 or $5 to buy a can of soft drink as he left his wallet at home. This is an example of: Selected Answer: Demand e"ects Correct Answer: Single-blind research Question 7 Researcher A and Researcher B both want to examine the construct of participant anxiety and its relationship with exam performance. Both researchers use the same methodology, measuring anxiety level by collecting data on how much people worry and they both identify the same pattern of results. What can you conclude about their measures from this statement? Selected Answer: They are both reliable and valid Correct Answer: They are both reliable and valid Question 8 A behavioural psychology researcher is most likely to design which kind of video game study? Selected Answer: How "leveling-up" rewards during video game play in$uence the people to continue playing Correct Answer: How "leveling-up" rewards during video game play in$uence the people to continue playing Question 9 Which form of expectation e"ect occurs when a participant is aware of being observed and therefore modi#es their behaviour in response to their awareness of being watched? Selected Answer: Hawthorne e"ect Correct Answer: Hawthorne e"ect Question 10 If a strange man is following you around and whipping you every time you check your phone, he might be a psychologist conducting research within the __________ paradigm. Selected Answer: behavioural Correct Answer: behavioural Question 11 A theory which has testable predictions... Selected Answer:... generates hypotheses that can be evaluated against data Correct Answer:... generates hypotheses that can be evaluated against data Question 12 An assessment tool was used to examine memory ability in a particular student. After two months, the student was assessed again, and results were found to be highly consistent with the previous assessment. This illustrates good __________ of the measurement. Selected Answer: Reliability Correct Answer: Reliability Question 13 A doctor is running a clinical trial for a new medication for anxiety and 50 patients have consented to try out the new drug. The doctor gave 25 patients the actual drug, and gave the other 25 patients a sugar pill. During the 1 month follow up, both groups reported equal improvement in their anxiety levels. What kind of bias might be happening in this scenario? What does this say about the medicine? Selected Answer: Placebo e"ect; the new medicine did not have marked bene#ts over and above sugar pills. Correct Answer: Placebo e"ect; the new medicine did not have marked bene#ts over and above sugar pills. Question 14 Psychologists showed that Clever Hans was not able to perform arithmetic, but was instead responding to subtle cues produced by people who asked him questions. What is the most important lesson to take away from the Clever Hans incident? Selected Answer: We should always consider alternative explanations for our #ndings. Correct Answer: We should always consider alternative explanations for our #ndings. Saturday, 26 October 2024 17:00:42 o'clock AEST ← OK

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