Deck 7: Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions

Question 1

Which of the following represents a directional research hypothesis?

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What does "generalizability" mean?

A) Results may be applied to the populations studied
B) Results may apply only to the sample studied
C) Sampling error is high
D) Sample does not represent the population

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following symbols represents the null hypothesis?

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What test would you want to use to test a nondirectional research hypothesis?

A) One-tailed test
B) Two-tailed test
C) Nonparametric test
D) Frequency test

Question 5

Which of the following provides a measure of how well your sample approximates the population?

A) Generalizability
B) Population
C) Sampling error
D) Hypothesis

Question 6

What does your research question help to guide?

A) Hypothesis
B) Relationship
C) Sampling error
D) Average score

Question 7

What does a hypothesis help you determine?

A) Techniques to be used
B) Research question
C) Average score
D) Sampling error

Question 8

The group from which you actually collect data for your study is known as the __________.

A) sample
B) population
C) sampling error
D) general group

Question 9

Which of the following represents a null hypothesis?

Question 10

Which of the following symbols represents the average score of Group 1?

Question 11

In order to help ensure generalizability, which of the following should be true about your sample?

A) It is large
B) It is small
C) It is representative
D) It is nonrepresentative

Question 12

What test would you want to use to test a directional research hypothesis?

A) One-tailed test
B) Two-tailed test
C) Nonparametric test
D) Frequency test

Question 13

What type of hypothesis shows no relationship between the variables in your study?

A) Directional hypothesis
B) Nondirectional hypothesis
C) Research hypothesis
D) Null hypothesis

Question 14

What type of hypothesis posits a difference between groups where the difference is specified?

A) Directional hypothesis
B) Nondirectional hypothesis
C) Research hypothesis
D) Null hypothesis

Question 15

Which of the following refers to the group to which you wish to generalize your results?

A) Sample
B) Population
C) Sampling error
D) General group

Question 16

Which of the following symbols represents the theoretical average of the population for Group 1?

Question 17

What type of hypothesis posits a difference between groups, but the difference is not specified?

A) Directional hypothesis
B) Nondirectional hypothesis
C) Research hypothesis
D) Null hypothesis

Question 18

Which of the following symbols represents the first research hypothesis?

Question 19

Which of the following symbols would be used in a nondirectional hypothesis?

Question 20

Which of the following represents a nondirectional research hypothesis?

Question 21

If the null hypothesis states that there will be no difference in the average score of 9th graders and the average score of 12th graders on the ABC memory test, how should you state the nondirectional research hypothesis?

Question 22

When might you use a one-tailed test, and when would you want to use a two-tailed test?

Question 23

Using the symbols from the text, write a directional research hypothesis equation where 9th graders are hypothesized to score better 12th graders.

Question 24

What are the basic criteria for judging the quality of hypotheses?

Question 25

What is a hypothesis?

Question 26

Explain the difference between the null hypothesis and a research hypothesis.

Question 27

What are the different types of research hypotheses? What are they testing?

Question 28

Explain what is meant by the fishing trip approach to doing research.

Question 29

What is the sampling error? What does a high sampling error indicate?

Question 30

What does the null hypothesis always refer to? What does the research hypothesis always refer to?