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Understanding Research Methods Quiz

Test your knowledge of research methods and statistics with our exciting quiz! This quiz features a variety of questions on correlational studies, independent and dependent variables, and experimental design.

Perfect for students and aspiring researchers!

  • 11 thought-provoking questions
  • Assess your understanding of key concepts
  • Great for study groups or individual practice
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Why don't correlational studies have control groups? 
A researcher asks participants to exercise a significant amount, a moderate amount, a slight amount, and not at all. Then, she measures how much each ate at dinner two hours later.
 
What is the dependent varibale?
 
A. The delay between exercise and diner
B. The amount of food being consumed at dinner
C. The type of food offered
D. The amount of exercise
A researcher asks participants to exercise a significant amount, a moderate amount, a slight amount, and not at all. Then, she measures how much each ate at dinner two hours later.
 
What is the independent variable?
 
A. The delay between exercise and dinner
B. The amount of food consumed at dinner
C. The type of food offered
D. The amount of exercise
Correlational studies examine how one variable causes another effect
 
True or False
Does music have an effect on how hard people exercise?
 
What could a dependent variable in this study?
 
A. The type of music
B. The effort put into the exercise
C. The volume of the music listened to
D. The beats per minute of music listened to
E. Both a and b
Does music have an effect on how hard people exercise?
 
What would be your independent variable in this study?
 
A. The type of music listened to
B. The effort put into the workout
C. The beats per minute of music listened to
D. Both a and c
 
 
Louie wants to study if the ethnicity of a person is predictive of what kind of music they choose to listen.
What type of study would this have to be?
 
a. Case Study
b. Survey
c. Correlational
d. Experimental 
In a classic study, a researcher randomly selected and assigned people to a study on assertiveness. Group one was asked to write about six times they had been assertive (which all of group one could do). Group two was asked to write about twelve times they had been assertive (most struggled to come up with this many). Then, everyone was asked to rate their own level of assertiveness at that moment. The subjects in group one scored themselves much higher than group two.
 
Use a cognitive concept discussed in class to explain why this likely occurred.
In a classic study, a researcher randomly selected and assigned people to a study on assertiveness. Group one was asked to write about six times they had been assertive (which all of group one could do). Group two was asked to write about twelve times they had been assertive (most struggled to come up with this many). Then, everyone was asked to rate their own level of assertiveness at that moment. The subjects in
group one scored themselves much higher than group two.
 
Was this study an experiment or a correlational study?
The experimental group in a study recieves an inactive treatment?
 
True or False
The control group in a study can receive no treatment at all
 
True or False
 
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