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12thgrade
1: OCR Psychology Research Methods: hypotheses & variables
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- 1. Multiple Choice
A hypothesis is...
what the researcher measures
something unwanted that can affect results
a testable prediction
what the researcher changes or compares
- 2. Multiple Choice
The dependent variable is...
what the researcher measures
something unwanted that can affect results
a testable prediction
what the researcher changes or compares
- 3. Multiple Choice
The independent variable is...
what the researcher measures
something unwanted that can affect results
a testable prediction
what the researcher changes or compares
- 4. Multiple Choice
An extraneous variable is...
what the researcher measures
something unwanted that can affect results
a testable prediction
what the researcher changes or compares
- 5. Multiple Choice
The mnemonic 'Push Dad 2 India' helps you to remember what a hypothesis should contain. What does it stand for?
Prayers, development, two invitations
Please, downsides, two intuitions
Prediction, dependent variable, two conditions of the independent variable
Pull, domain, two containers for ice-cream
- 6. Multiple Choice
Two variables that change with each other - as one changes, so does the other - are called...
Co-variables
Linked variables
Joined variables
Twin variables
- 7. Multiple Choice
A correlation shows what?
Cause and effect
The difference between variables
The effect of confounding variables
The relationship between variables
- 8. Multiple Choice
When both co-variables move in the same direction, it's what kind of correlation?
positive
negative
zero
- 9. Multiple Choice
What kind of graph is used to show correlations?
bar chart
histogram
pie chart
scattergraph
- 10. Multiple Choice
If the crosses on a scattergraph go down from left to right, it shows that...
there is no relationship between variables
confounding variables have affected the results
the variables change in opposite directions - as one goes up, the other goes down
there is no pattern or relationship between variables
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