Question 1

A test that measures the theoretical concept that it is designed to test has ____ validity

Accepted Answer

A)  construct 
B)  face 
C)  content 
D)  criterion 
A)  construct 
B)  face 
C)  content 
D)  criterion

Question 2

At a day care center a researcher asks children to list their five favorite toys from most favorite to least favorite.What level of measurement is represented in this example?

Accepted Answer

A)  nominal 
B)  ordinal 
C)  interval 
D)  ratio 
A)  nominal 
B)  ordinal 
C)  interval 
D)  ratio

Question 3

Content validity concerns whether the test

Accepted Answer

A)  measures the theoretical concept it supposedly tests 
B)  measures the full range of behaviors represented by the concept 
C)  correlates with other valid tests 
D)  All of the these are true 
A)  measures the theoretical concept it supposedly tests 
B)  measures the full range of behaviors represented by the concept 
C)  correlates with other valid tests 
D)  All of the these are true

Question 4

Professor Jones studied the effect of two types of instructions on learning either nonsense words or real words by college sophomores.Which of the following is not a variable?

Accepted Answer

A)  instructions 
B)  type of words 
C)  year in school 
D)  they are all variables 
A)  instructions 
B)  type of words 
C)  year in school 
D)  they are all variables

Question 5

A subject variable is a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  incidental aspect of the study that is of no concern 
B)  confounded variable 
C)  dependent variable that the researcher does not measure 
D)  independent variable that the researcher does not manipulate 
A)  incidental aspect of the study that is of no concern 
B)  confounded variable 
C)  dependent variable that the researcher does not measure 
D)  independent variable that the researcher does not manipulate

Question 6

I have a hypothesis that people who have freckles on their faces may not be as athletically inclined as other people.To test it,I divided the class into two groups based on whether or not they have freckles (either none or some),and then measured how high the participants in each of the groups could jump.Based on this information,identify the independent variable (including number of levels)and the dependent variable.Which variable is categorical? Which variable is quantitative? Is the quantitative variable continuous? Which of the four levels of measurement will best describe the dependent variable?

Accepted Answer

The independent variable in this study i

A test that measures the theoretical concept that it is designed to test has ____ validity

At a day care center a researcher asks children to list their five favorite toys from most favorite to least favorite.What level of measurement is represented in this example?

Content validity concerns whether the test

Professor Jones studied the effect of two types of instructions on learning either nonsense words or real words by college sophomores.Which of the following is not a variable?

A subject variable is a(n)

Psychology and Science

Developing a Research Question

Ethics in Research

Writing in Psychology

Tabular and Graphical Description of Data

Validity

Control

Nonexperimental Research, part 1: Observational, archival, and Case-Study Research

Nonexperimental Research, part 2: Survey Research

True Experiments, part 1: Single-Factor Designs

True Experiments, part 2: Factorial Designs

Single-Subject Experiments

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Biases and Limitations of Experimental Psychology

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Exam 5: Variables

A test that measures the theoretical concept that it is designed to test has ____ validity

At a day care center a researcher asks children to list their five favorite toys from most favorite to least favorite.What level of measurement is represented in this example?

Content validity concerns whether the test

Professor Jones studied the effect of two types of instructions on learning either nonsense words or real words by college sophomores.Which of the following is not a variable?

A subject variable is a(n)

Psychology and Science

Developing a Research Question

Ethics in Research

Writing in Psychology

Tabular and Graphical Description of Data

Validity

Control

Nonexperimental Research, part 1: Observational, archival, and Case-Study Research

Nonexperimental Research, part 2: Survey Research

True Experiments, part 1: Single-Factor Designs

True Experiments, part 2: Factorial Designs

Single-Subject Experiments

Quasi Experiments

Biases and Limitations of Experimental Psychology

Filters