A master plan which specifies the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the data is called:

• A) Research type
• B) Research budget
• C) Research design
• D) Research feedback

All of the following options are ethical issues in lab experiment EXCEPT;

• A) Using research results to disadvantage the participants
• B) Exposing participants to physical or mental stress
• C) Debriefing the participants accurately after the experiment is over
• D) Deceiving subjects by deliberately misleading them

To establish that variable X cause’s variable Y, all of the following conditions should be met, EXCEPT;

• A) X (the presumed causal factor) should precede Y
• B) None of the given options
• C) Other factors should possibly cause the change in the dependent variable Y
• D) Both X and Y should co-vary

Control for a third variable makes a:

• A) One variable table.
• B) Trivariate table.
• C) Bivariate table.
• D) None of the above.

Which of the following control techniques that is available to researcher, controls for both known and unknown variables?

• A) Building the extraneous variable into the design
• B) Random assignment
• C) Analysis of covariance
• D) Matching

In an experimental research study, the primary goal is to isolate and identify the effect produced by which of the following?

• A) Extraneous variable
• B) Independent variable
• C) Dependent variable
• D) Confounding variable

Which of the following is the process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category?

• A) Coding
• B) Concurring
• C) Segmenting
• D) Coloring

A study that involves no researcher intervention is called __________.

• A) A non involvement study
• B) A quasi-experimental study
• C) An experimental study
• D) An observational study

In frequency tables total of columns and rows are called:

• A) Area of table
• B) Cell of table
• C) Body of table
• D) Marginal

In quasi-experimental research designs, causal interpretations can be made _______.

• A) Only when rival explanations have been shown to be implausible
• B) Only when rival explanations have been shown to be plausible
• C) Only when there is a single participant in the experiment
• D) Only when the participants have been randomly selected

Frequency distribution technique can be used for which of the following scales?

• A) All of the given options
• B) Ordinal
• C) Nominal
• D) Interval

The incidence of refusal in mall intercept interviews is _______________.

• A) Moderate
• B) High
• C) Low
• D) Nil

When p value is less then alpha then we will

• A) Reject the Null Hypothesis
• B) Don’t Reject the Null Hypothesis
• C)
• D)

P- value for the left tail test is

• A) Left tailed Test: P-value =NORM.S.DIST(${z_\alpha }$, TRUE)
• B) Left tailed Test: P-value =1 - NORM.S.DIST(${z_\alpha }$, TRUE)
• C)
• D)

QQ plot is used to check

• A) Normality
• B) Mean
• C)
• D)

P- value for the two tailed test is

• A) Two tailed Test: P-value = $2(1 - NORM.S.DIST( \left| {{z_\alpha }} \right|, TRUE)$
• B) Two tailed Test: P-value = $1 - NORM.S.DIST( \left| {{z_\alpha }} \right|, TRUE)$
• C)
• D)

If the sample size is less then 30 and the standard deviation is unknown then we will apply

• A) T-test
• B) Both a and b
• C) Z- test
• D) F-test

Do not rejecting the null hypothesis when it's actually false is

• A) Level of significance
• B) Power of a test
• C) Type II error
• D) Type I error

Test statistics for Z-test is

• A) $z = \frac{{\mu - \bar x}}{{\frac{\sigma }{{\sqrt n }}}}$
• B) $z = \frac{{\bar x - x}}{{\frac{\sigma }{{\sqrt n }}}}$
• C) $z = \frac{{\bar x - \mu }}{{\frac{\sigma }{{\sqrt n }}}}$
• D) $z = \frac{{\bar x + \mu }}{{\frac{\sigma }{{\sqrt n }}}}$

F test is used for

• A) Three and more than three means testing
• B) Singles or two mean testing
• C)
• D)