Lesson 3.6.3

3.6.3 Psychology as a science, ethnocentrism, validity, reliability and sampling bias Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which key feature of science ensures psychological research can be repeated by others?

    • Falsifiability
    • Objectivity
    • Replicability
    • Empiricism

  2. What term describes judging other cultures by the standards of one's own culture?

    • Ethnocentrism
    • Cultural bias
    • Alpha bias
    • Beta bias

  3. Which type of validity assesses whether a test measures what it claims to measure?

    • Concurrent validity
    • Construct validity
    • Population validity
    • Ecological validity

  4. What method of assessing reliability compares two halves of the same psychological test?

    • Split-half
    • Inter-rater
    • Test-retest
    • Concurrent

  5. Which sampling technique is most likely to produce sampling bias based on availability?

    • Stratified sampling
    • Opportunity sampling
    • Systematic sampling
    • Random sampling

  6. A researcher only studies British university students. What validity issue does this create?

    • Internal validity
    • Population validity
    • Temporal validity
    • Ecological validity

  7. Which scientific criterion requires psychological theories to be capable of being proven wrong?

    • Falsifiability
    • Paradigm shift
    • Reductionism
    • Replicability

  8. What type of validity is threatened if a lab experiment lacks realism to everyday life?

    • Predictive validity
    • Construct validity
    • Ecological validity
    • Face validity

  9. An IQ test consistently gives scores 15 points too high. What type of error does this show?

    • Random error
    • Type I error
    • Sampling error
    • Systematic error

  10. Two observers score children's playground aggression differently. What reliability measure is low?

    • Split-half reliability
    • Internal reliability
    • Test-retest reliability
    • Inter-rater reliability

  11. What term describes data collection based purely on direct sensory experience?

    • Empiricism
    • Induction
    • Rationalism
    • Deduction

  12. A clinical psychologist diagnoses all foreign patients with schizophrenia due to Western norms. What is this?

    • Cultural relativism
    • Alpha bias
    • Ethnocentrism
    • Reductionism

  13. Which scientific process involves moving from a general theory to a specific, testable hypothesis?

    • Paradigm shift
    • Falsification
    • Induction
    • Deduction

  14. A questionnaire asks about dieting habits. Participants lie to look good. What is threatened?

    • Internal validity
    • External validity
    • Reliability
    • Objectivity

  15. To check if a depression scale predicts future symptom severity, which validity should be tested?

    • Face validity
    • Temporal validity
    • Predictive validity
    • Concurrent validity

  16. What scientific term describes a shared set of assumptions and methods within a discipline?

    • Paradigm
    • Variable
    • Hypothesis
    • Construct

  17. Minimising the influence of a researcher's personal opinions on data collection ensures what quality?

    • Objectivity
    • Standardisation
    • Replicability
    • Subjectivity

  18. A study finds identical twin IQ scores differ widely when tested ten years apart. What is lacking?

    • Ecological validity
    • Test-retest reliability
    • Internal validity
    • Inter-rater reliability

  19. Ignoring cultural variations by assuming all human behaviour is universal demonstrates what?

    • Cultural relativism
    • Alpha bias
    • Beta bias
    • Ethnocentrism

  20. Which scientific term describes research conducted without personal bias or emotional influence?

    • Subjectivity
    • Objectivity
    • Falsifiability
    • Standardisation

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