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WJEC A-Level Psychology Unit 4 Psychology: Applied Research Methods overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What are the two sections of WJEC Unit 4?

  2. How are the personal investigations assessed in WJEC Psychology?

  3. Which brain-scanning technique uses a radioactive tracer and was used by Raine et al. (1997)?

  4. Which design follows the same participants over a long period?

  5. What are the three questions used to choose an inferential test?

  6. Which inferential test suits a test of difference with a related (repeated-measures) design and ordinal data?

  7. What does a significance level of p is less than or equal to 0.05 mean?

  8. When is the null hypothesis rejected?

  9. Which measure of central tendency is least affected by extreme scores (outliers)?

  10. What does a positively skewed distribution look like?

  11. Which inferential test is used for a correlation with ordinal data?

  12. How can a researcher improve the reliability of an observation?

  13. Which is a limitation of brain-scanning techniques as evidence?

  14. What is a cohort effect, which can weaken a cross-sectional study?