PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
It is most beneficial to you to write this mock midterm UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS.
This means:
• Complete the midterm in ___ hour(s).
• Work on your own.
• Keep your notes and textbook closed.
• Attempt every question.
After the time limit, go back over your work with a different colour or on a separate piece
of paper and try to do the questions you are unsure of. Record your ideas in the
margins to remind yourself of what you were thinking when you take it up at PASS.
The purpose of this mock exam is to give you practice answering questions in a timed
setting and to help you to gauge which aspects of the course content you know well and
which are in need of further development and review. Use this mock exam as a
learning tool in preparing for the actual exam.
Please note:
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Come to the PASS workshop with your mock exam complete. During the
workshop you can work with other students to review your work.
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Decide which questions you most want to review – the Facilitator may ask
students to vote on which questions they want to discuss in detail.
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and complete the exam before you attend.
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Facilitators help students to work together to compare and assess the answers
they have. If you are not able to attend the PASS workshop, you can work alone
or with others in the class.
Good Luck writing the Mock Exam!!
Dates and locations of mock exam take-up: Friday December 9th from 7:00 –
9:00pm TB 208 & Monday December 12th from 12:30-3:30pm ME 4499
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
1) Which of the following is not a defining factor of the scientific approach?
a) peer review
b) falsifiability of theories
c) replicability
d) complex designs
2) Which of the following is an accurate definition of discrete and continuous
variables in simple terms?
a) discrete variables can refer to a range of values, continuous variables are
easy to manipulate over time and can be described as categories
b) discrete variables can described as categories, continuous variables can refer
to a range of values
c) discrete variables are short variables, continuous variables are long and
continue after the experiment
d) discrete variables are for discriminant validity, continuous variables are for
convergent validity
3) What is the difference between interval and ordinal scales?
a) ordinal scales do not have equal intervals between levels and interval scales
do
b) ordinal scales have levels in order and interval scales do not
c) interval scales can refer to the order of runners in a marathon and ordinal
cannot
d) ordinal scales are continuous and interval scales are discrete
4) What is the difference between interval and ratio scales?
a) there is no difference, they can measure the same thing
b) ratio is continuous and interval is discrete
c) interval scales do not have an absolute zero and ratio scales do
d) interval scales can be used for temperature and ratio scales cannot
5) Which term best describes the following statement: “If I decrease the
temperature in the field house during December exams students will perform
worse on their exams”
a) prediction
b) hypothesis
c) theory
d) peer review
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
6) Which order is most likely to occur naturally?
a) hypotheses are often based on strong theories
b) theories are often based on strong hypotheses
c) hypotheses are made after the study is conducted
d) theories are looked at when you have your results
7) Which study or studies changed the way that we think about ethics in
psychology?
a) Nuremberg Trials and Milgram’s Experiment
b) Howes and Solomon study
c) Smith & Glass
d) Harlow
8) Which of the three below make up the Tri- Council Policy Statement?
a) beneficence, autonomy, justice
b) respect for persons, justice, beneficence
c) respect for persons, concern for welfare, justice
d) autonomy, concern for welfare, justice
9) What are the three measures of variability?
a) range, standard deviation, mean
b) variance, standard deviation, median
c) standard deviation, range, variance
d) mean, median, standard deviation
10) In positively skewed data, as in the graph below, select the answer that places
the measures of central tendency in
the correct order
a) 1 = mean, 2 = median, 3 = mode
b) 1 = standard deviation, 2 = mode, 3 = mean
c) 1 = mode, 2 = median, 3 = mean
d) 1 = mode, 2 =standard deviation, 3 = mean
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
11) Which of the following is not a formal section in an APA style research paper?
a) method
b) abstract
c) design
d) results
12) Which answer possesses all the requirements for something to be considered
causation?
a) covariation between variables, eliminate alternatives, at least two independent
variables
b) temporal precedence, covariation between variables, randomization
c) temporal precedence, covariation between variables, eliminate alternatives
d) temporal precedence, eliminate alternatives, construct validity
13) Which value of r below indicates the strongest relationship?
a) 0.59
b) -0.62
c) 0.65
d) -0.70
14) What is the definition of a mediating variable?
a) a mediating variable explains the relationship between the independent and
dependent variables
b) a mediating variables is the same as a confounding variable; they impact the
effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable
c) it is an alternative explanation to what could be causing the change in the
dependent variable
d) it is a variable that mediates between the different levels of the independent
variable
15) What are the two components of reliability?
a) true score and measurement error
b) true score and test-re test
c) measurement error and test - retest
d) test – retest and internal consistency
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
16) What type of validity looks at how plausible a measure is?
a) face validity
b) plausible validity
c) construct validity
d) body validity
17) Which of the following are subsets of criterion – oriented validity
a) concurrent, predictive, convergent, discriminant
b) concurrent, convergent, divergent, predictive
c) convergent, divergent, plausible, concurrent
d) test-retest, discriminant, predictive, convergent
18) Which of the following involves using the same participants and the same
measures at different times
a) test – retest validity
b) replicability validity
c) test – retest reliability
d) interrater reliability
19) What type of observational research requires a coding system?
a) naturalistic observation
b) participant observation
c) systematic observation
d) case studies
20) Which of the following is not a design in survey research
a) cross – sectional
b) longitudinal
c) successive independent samples
d) longitudinal – sectional
21) Which of the following is not a type of probability sampling
a) simple random sampling
b) cluster random sampling
c) stratified random sampling
d) cluster sampling
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
22) Which of the following are types of nonprobability sampling?
a) haphazard sampling, quota sampling, cluster sampling
b) purposive sampling, haphazard sampling, random sampling
c) quota sampling, purposive sampling, cluster sampling
d) none of the above
23) The experimental method requires…
a) at least two levels of the independent variable and controlling extraneous
variables
b) at least two independent variables, and no confounding variables
c) a hypothesis, an independent variable and a dependent variable
d) causation, two levels of the independent variables and no confounding
variables
24) Which type of test can lead to participants being sensitized?
a) pre-test
b) pre-test, post- test
c) post – test,- pre-test
d) pre-test, post- pretest, post-test
25) What is used to prevent selection differences in experimental design?
a) random assignment
b) non-selective assignment
c) control for participant variables
d) placebo groups
26) The Solomon Four – Group Design…
a) treats the pre-test as if it were another variable
b) has four steps: pre pre-test, pre-test, post-test, pre-test post-test,
c) combines pre-test posttest and posttest only into one design
d) A and C
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
27) Psychologists use a technique called _____ to neutralize order effects in a
____________ type of design
a) counter balancing, pre-test posttest
b) random assignment, posttest only
c) counter balancing, repeated measures
d) random assignment, repeated measures
28) Influences that can lead to a null result by making it difficult to determine if there
is a significant effect are called…
a) confounding variable
b) obscuring variable
c) obscuring factors
d) randomization
29) A strong manipulation refers to…
a) one that has the highest r value
b) has the greatest difference between levels of a variable
c) has more than two independent variable, a complex design
d) strong is simple, too many variables can become difficult to manage
30) Which of the following can obscure an effect?
a) ineffective manipulation, measurement error, floor effects, ceiling effects,
excessive variance
b) ineffective manipulation, variance in data, wall effects, measurement error
c) excessive variance in data, absence of random assignment, weak
manipulation, wall effects
d) floor/ceiling effects, wall effects, ineffective manipulation, excessive variance
in data
31) In simple terms, the floor effect is ______________, and a ceiling effect is
______________
a) too easy, too difficult
b) too difficult, too easy
c) when all results are high, when all results are low
d) grounded in reality, staged and “in the clouds”
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
32) How do we counter experimenter bias?
a) single blind study
b) double blind study
c) test retest reliability
d) A and B
33) A factorial design is…
a) A design that is impacted by multiple factors
b) A design that has more than one independent variable
c) A design that has more than one independent variable and each variable has
at least two levels
d) A design that has at least one independent variable with at least two levels
34) What is a main effect?
a) The main result from a study
b) the overall effect of all the independent variables in a study
c) the overall effect of only one independent variable in a study
d) it describes the change seen in the dependent variable
35) In a 2 X 2 X 2 design how many interactions are there?
a) two 3-way interactions, three 1-way interactions
b) three 2- way interactions, one 3-way interaction
c) one 2-way interactions, three 3-way interactions
d) one interaction between all three
36) When something is statistically significant, it has a…
a) low probability of occurring by chance
b) high probability of occurring by chance
c) it does not occur by chance at all
d) it does occur by chance
37) If something is statistically significant the probability of it occurring is…
a) smaller than the alpha level
b) larger than the alpha level
c) the same value as the alpha level
d) smaller than the beta level
PSYC 2001 AT
Hazel Kabibi
38) When researchers fail to reject the null hypothesis it means that…
a) the null hypothesis does not exist
b) the alternative hypothesis is false
c) the alternative hypothesis is true
d) the results are statistically significant
39) An overly large sample size can lead to…
a) a study that is too expensive to conduct
b) results that are statistically significant, but not meaningful
c) decreased probability of supporting the alternative hypothesis
d) decreased content validity
40) Effect size can be defined as ….
a) the size of the effect is the same as the results
b) a measure between the different levels of an independent variable
c) a measure of the impact of two different conditions on participants
d) a measure of the strength of a relationship between two variables
41) Cohen’s d measures effect size in units of
a) the same unit as the independent variable(s)
b) probability (percentages)
c) standard deviation
d) variance
42) The t-test is used for
a) comparing two means
b) comparing more than two means
c) comparing two standard deviations
d) comparing two variations
43) The ANOVA test is similar to
a) the t test but it applies to less than two means
b) the t test but it applies to more than two means
c) Cohen’s d
d) the alpha level
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Hazel Kabibi
44) Parametric tests are use with
a) nominal data
b) nominal and ordinal data
c) ratio data
d) ratio and interval data
45) The probability of a type one error is
a) the probability of a “miss”
b) probability of a false negative
c) equivalent to the alpha level
d) equivalent to the probability of a type two error
46) A one tailed test_______________ and a two tailed test______________.
a) assumes a difference but not a direction, is directional (increase or decrease)
b) is directional (increase or decrease), assumes a difference but not a direction
c) is non rare events, is for rare events because they occur at the tails of a
probability distribution
d) is for type 1 errors, is for type 2 errors
47) Meta – Analysis is …
a) a study with a very large N
b) seeks to evaluate the general trends and results from a body of research on a
specific topic
c) is the analysis of how your study relates to other studies on the same topic
d) when researchers conduct many different studies on the same topic to gain
different perspectives
48) A small N design or a single case study is
a) equivalent to a case study
b) a behavioural study of one or more people (but not too many)
c) a design where the value of N is n-1
d) a small design within a larger study