Short answer questionsWhat is a research question?
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What should a research question provide?
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What is the function of the hypothesis?
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Is it nominal, ordinal or interval data?
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Tests of difference.
Psychology
Q7
Which test would you choose if you had ordinal data and independent design?
The Mann-Whitney U test.
In the research design known as ‘repeated measures’.
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What is order effect?
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What is the fatigue effect?
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What does interval data not tell us?
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Psychology
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How would the decision on the design in a piece of research control variables?
It would control participant variables or order effects.
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To describe data and identifying patterns or relationships.
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Which hypothesis does an inferential statistical analysis tell you about?
It tells the probability value for the null hypothesis.
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Psychology
Q16
If the probability of the results being due to chance is less than 5%, what is the probability of the results being due to the independent variable?
More than 95%.
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Poor research design.
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By using standardised procedures.
What is situational bias?
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