Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
What is an aim?
Answer: A general statement describing the purpose.
2.
What is the hypothesis?
Answer: This is a prediction. A precise and testable statement of the relationship between two variables.
3.
What is the independent variable?
Answer: This is the variable which is manipulated.
4.
What is the dependent variable?
Answer: This is the measurement taken.
5.
What does operationalising mean?
Answer: Making something measurable.
6.
What is a directional (one tailed) hypothesis?
Answer: Specific
7.
What is an non directional hypothesis (two tailed)?
Answer: Vague prediction.
8.
When do you use a two tailed hypothesis?
Answer: When studying something new.
9.
What is an extraneous variable and what is an example?
Answer: They are unwanted and could affect the results if they are not controlled. An example is demand characteristics.
10.
What is a confounding variable?
Answer: It is a variable that couldn’t be or was not controlled and did affect the DV.
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