Exam 1: The Basics of Research Design

If I was conducting a study on the effect of a new anti-depressant drug (compared to a placebo drug) on depression scores, which one of the following would be a suitable one-tailed hypothesis?

Where should the hypotheses of a study be presented in the write up of a psychological research paper?

How closely a study resembles real-world scenarios is an example of which type of validity?

Scores on a maths test are an example of what type of data?

A key aim of qualitative research is to…

If your study required you to deceive your participants about its aims, how might you go about dealing with this issue ethically?

Which of the following would be a good example of internal consistency?

If I wanted to conduct an experiment on the effect of caffeine consumption on memory scores, what types of data would I need to collect for my independent (IV) and dependent variable (DV)?

What would be a correct way to describe a negative correlation between stress and well-being scores?

Which one of the following would be an example of qualitative data?