MCQ Bank
The bivariate table derived from trivariate table is called;
- A) Correlation tables
- B) Sub table
- C) Bivariates
- D) Partials
Which of the tables is based on cross-tabulation and the cases are organized in the table on the basis of two variables at the same time?
- A) Bivariate Tables
- B) SPSS Table
- C) MINITAB Table
- D) Frequency Distribution Table
When does random assignment occur?
- A) When subjects have an equal chance to be assigned to any condition and/or group in a study
- B) When a subject can choose its group and study
- C) None of the given options
- D) When a subject cannot choose its group and study
Researchers read percentaged tables to make:
- A) Comparison
- B) Differences
- C) None of the above
- D) Relationships
_______ variable(s) should be changed at a time when conducting a single-case design.
- A) 2
- B) 4
- C) 3
- D) 1
Control in experimental research is BEST described as an attempt to:
- A) Limit threats to internal validity
- B) Increase the generalize ability of findings
- C) Equate the subjects on the treatment variable
- D) Limit threats to external validity
Which of the following describes the situation in which the control variable intervenes between the original independent variable and the dependent variables?
- A) Replication pattern
- B) Interpretation pattern
- C) Suppressor variable pattern
- D) Negative linear relationship
In an experimental research study, the primary goal is to isolate and identify the effect produced by which of the following?
- A) Confounding variable
- B) Independent variable
- C) Extraneous variable
- D) Dependent variable
The group that does not receive the treatment is called;
- A) None of the given options
- B) Independent group
- C) Control group
- D) Experimental group
All of the following options are ethical issues in lab experiment EXCEPT;
- A) Debriefing the participants accurately after the experiment is over
- B) Exposing participants to physical or mental stress
- C) Using research results to disadvantage the participants
- D) Deceiving subjects by deliberately misleading them
Frequency distribution technique can be used for which of the following scales?
- A) Interval
- B) Ordinal
- C) Nominal
- D) All of the given options
In order to read a table, students should first look at;
- A) Direction
- B) Percentages
- C) Summation
- D) Variable labels
‘Making inferences pertinent to the meaning and implications of the research investigation and drawing conclusions’ is definition of;
- A) Visual representation
- B) Summary statistics
- C) Interpretation
- D) Graphical explanation
Which of the following measures of central tendency is referred as ‘the most common or frequently occurring number’?
- A) Mean
- B) Mode
- C) None of the given options
- D) Median
The group that receives the experimental treatment condition is called as _______________.
- A) Experimental group
- B) Independent group
- C) Participant group
- D) Control group
Which of the following number of variables involved in Descriptive Statistics?
- A) Univariate
- B) Bivariate
- C) Multivariate
- D) All of the given options
Threat to internal validity of an experiment arises when some subjects do not continue throughout the experiment, is referred as;
- A) Mortality
- B) Testing Effect
- C) Maturation Effect
- D) Selection Bias Effect
Control for a third variable makes a:
- A) Trivariate table.
- B) None of the above.
- C) One variable table.
- D) Bivariate table.
In experimental research, a specific event in the external environment occurring between the first and second measurement that is beyond the control of the experimenter and that affects the validity of an experiment, is termed as;
- A) Maturation Effect
- B) Testing Effect
- C) History Effect
- D) Instrumentation Effect
A study that involves no researcher intervention is called __________.
- A) An experimental study
- B) An observational study
- C) A non involvement study
- D) A quasi-experimental study