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1 Oxford Cambridge and RS S Level Psyhology H167/01 Researh methods Monday 16 May 2016 fternoon time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes * * You must have: a alulator * H * First name Last name Centre number Candidate number instrutions Use blak ink. Complete the boxes above with your name, entre number and andidate number. nswer all the questions. Write your answer to eah question in the spae provided. If additional spae is required, use the lined page(s) at the end of this booklet. The question number(s) must be learly shown. o not write in the barodes. informtion The total mark for this paper is 75. The marks for eah question are shown in brakets [ ]. Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*). This doument onsists of 16 pages. [601/5312/X] C (KN/CGW) /4 OCR is an exempt Charity turn over

2 2 Setion Multiple hoie nswer all the questions. You should put the letter of the orret answer in the box provided. 1 Whih experimental design was used in the Loftus and Palmer study investigating the effets of leading questions on memory? independent measures laboratory experiment mathed partiipants repeated measures 2 Peer review of a piee of new psyhologial researh should be onduted by: a speially appointed government minister another researher working in a different field of psyhology another researher working in the same field of psyhology the head of the psyhology department in the university where the researh was onduted 3 psyhologist has designed a new psyhometri test to measure extroversion. She gives 30 partiipants both her test and an established personality test, and ompares their sores on the two tests. What is she trying to establish by doing this? onurrent validity riterion validity eologial validity external validity 4 Whih of these is the name of a referening system used to ite aademi researh? Cambridge Harvard Stanford Yale

3 5 What omes first in an aademi referene? 3 abstrat name of journal surname of researher title of investigation 6 In whih setion of a pratial report would you find the alulations performed for an inferential statistial test? abstrat appendies disussion results 7 Whih is a priniple of sientifi enquiry? impliation indution information initiation turn over

4 8 Look at the following satter diagram graph to show the relationship between empathy sores and leadership sores Leadership sore Empathy sore Whih is the best estimate of the orrelation oeffiient for the above data? What sampling tehnique did Milgram use to obtain the partiipants for his study of obediene? opportunity random self-seleted snowball

5 10 binomial sign test is orretly used to assess the signifiane of a set of results. What level of data and type of design are neessary to arry out this test? 5 nominal level data using a repeated measures design nominal level data using an independent measures design ordinal level data using a repeated measures design ordinal level data using an independent measures design 11 Whih of these is assoiated with the term demand harateristis? hanges in partiipants behaviour as a onsequene of knowing they are being studied ompulsory things that the partiipants must do instrutions given to the partiipants by the researher personality traits of the partiipants 12 Whih of these is a losed question? How do horror movies make you feel? How often do you wath horror movies? 1 3 per year 4 5 per year 6 or more per year What is the best horror movie you have seen? Why do you like horror movies? 13 What is the name for the type of interview in whih some of the questions to be asked are ompiled beforehand and others made up while the interview is being onduted? semi-onstruted semi-detahed semi-strutured semi-unstrutured turn over

6 14 What is a quasi-experiment? 6 the independent variable annot be diretly manipulated the independent variable is diretly manipulated there is more than one independent variable there is no independent variable 15 Whih of these would produe interval level data? estimates of the number of sweets in a jar ratings of attrativeness of people with pupils of different sizes reation time to respond to visual and auditory stimuli reorded using a stopwath the number of people who hold the door open for the person behind them when entering a shop

7 7 Setion Researh design and response nswer all the questions. Furry friends. Some researh suggests that animals an help people feel less lonely. To investigate this further a psyhologist wants to ondut an experiment to study the effet of aring for pets on elderly people living in one large residential home alled The Oaklands whih has a total of 125 men and women aged between 60 and Identify the target population in this researh (a) esribe how random sampling ould be used to obtain partiipants for this study.... [3] turn over

8 8 (b) Evaluate the use of random sampling in this study.... [6] 18 (a) Identify the independent variable in this study.... (b) Identify the dependent variable in this study....

9 9 19* Explain how you would use the experimental method to ondut this researh. Justify your deisions as part of your explanation. In your answer, the required features that you must refer to are: the experimental design you would use how the dependent variable will be measured the ontrol of at least one extraneous variable. You should use your own experiene of pratial ativities to inform your response. [12] turn over

10 20 Write a null hypothesis for this study [3] 21 Outline one advantage of onduting this researh in a real-life setting... [2] 22 Identify two ethial onsiderations in this study and explain how you would address them... [6]

11 11 Setion ata analysis and interpretation nswer all the questions. psyhologist onduted an observation study to investigate how people reat when walking towards eah other along a orridor in a building where lots of different offie staff work. To do this, she asked for permission to set up hidden ameras for a day to reord people s enounters along one of the main orridors onneting one part of the building to another. The results from the study are shown in the table below. table 1: ifferent behaviours observed as two people approah eah other in a orridor voids eye ontat Smiles Says hello Makes eye ontat nods total This study is an example of a strutured observation. What is a strutured observation?.. [2] 24 What level of data is obtained in this study?.. 25 What is the ratio of the number of times people avoided eye ontat to the number of times people said hello?.. [2] 26 What is the mode for the type of behaviour observed by people as they approah eah other in the orridor?.. turn over

12 12 27 Sketh a pie hart to show the data reorded in this study. [4] 28 Outline two onlusions that an be made from the data olleted in this study... [6]

13 13 29 In a follow-up study onduted a month later that reorded 310 behaviours in total, the researhers noted that people avoided eye ontat 125 times. Write this as a perentage to two signifiant figures. Show your working... [3] 30 (a) Explain what is meant by a overt observation.... [2] (b) Evaluate the use of overt observation in this study.... [4] en of QUeStion PPeR

14 14 itionl nswer SPe If additional spae is required, you should use the following lined page(s). The question number(s) must be learly shown in the margin(s).

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