PSYC0038 – RMP1 Take Home Test

Take-Home Test
Due on 17 December 2021 at 23:30 hours

Instructions:
1. Type your answer to each question in the space provided on the
Answer Sheet. Only answers on the Answer Sheet will be marked!
2. For Multiple Choice Questions, answer by typing the letter that
corresponds to your chosen response option (i.e. A or B or C or D or E).
3. Once you have completed the Answer Sheet, submit this document
via the link in the ‘Coursework Submission’ section.
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ANSWER SHEET
Question Your Answer Question Your Answer
1a 20a
1b 20b
1c 20c
1d 20d
1e 20e
2a 21a
2b 21b
2c 21c
2d 21d
3 22a
4 22b
5 22c
6 22d
7 23
8 24
9 25a
10 25b
11 25c
12 26
13 27
14 28
15 29
16 30
17 31
18 32
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1. For each of the following statements, answer by typing Yes or Your Answer
No to indicate whether the statement is consistent with the
principles, standards or best practice for conducting ethical
research in psychology. (1 mark each = 5 marks total)

a. Maintaining confidentiality

b. Incentivising risk taking

c. Obtaining informed consent

d. Maximising potential harm

e. Debriefing participants

2. For each of the following statements, answer by typing Yes or Your Answer
No to indicate whether a breach of principles, standards or best
practice for conducting ethical research in psychology has taken
place. (2 marks each = 8 marks)

a. A lecturer tells students that not participating in a study will result

in lower grades.

b. A researcher collects data without gaining approval from a research

ethics review committee.

c. A researcher informs participants how to contact mental health

professionals for advice and services during debriefing.

d. A research withholds some details about the hypothesis of a study

from participants before they have completed the study.

3. Which of the following does NOT belong in the Introduction Your Answer
section of a psychology research paper / report? (2 marks)

a. Literature review
b. Research questions
c. Abstract
d. Rationale for the study
e. All of the above belong in the Introduction section
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4. Which of the following does NOT belong in the Method section Your Answer
of a psychology research paper / report? (2 marks)

a. Details about a questionnaire that may have been used

b. The procedure used
c. Details about the sample
d. The practical implications of the study
e. All of the above belong in the Method section

5. Which of the following does NOT belong in the Results section Your Answer
of a psychology research paper / report? (2 marks)

a. Descriptive statistics
b. Consent form and participant information sheet
c. Figures and graphs
d. Tests of the hypothesis
e. All of the above belong in the Results section

6. Which of the following does NOT belong in the Discussion Your Answer
section of a psychology research paper / report? (2 marks)

a. Interpretation of findings
b. Theoretical implications
c. Future directions or questions
d. Limitations of the study
e. All of the above belong in the Discussion section
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Please read the following Abstract and then answer questions 7 – 14.
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between information processing speed and
language in young children growing up in a multilingual environment. The aim is to explore
whether information processing speed is similarly related to two aspects of language:
vocabulary and syntax. A sample of 119 multilingual 8-year-olds completed a computerized
reaction time task to assess their processing speed, and a picture-based language test to assess
their vocabulary and syntax. A simple reaction time score was used to proxy their processing
speed. The number of words participants could produce for the presented pictures (ranging
between 1 and 15) was used as a vocabulary score, and the number of complex sentences
(ranging between 1 and 12) was used as a syntax score. Results revealed that faster reaction
times were associated with a lower number of words but a higher number of complex
sentences that children produced. The study suggests that in young children information
processing speed has a differential effect on vocabulary and syntax.

7. What is the Research Design of the study? (2 marks) Your Answer

a. Experimental Design
b. Correlational Design
c. Qualitative Design
d. Quasi-experimental Design
e. Insufficient information has been given in the Abstract to answer
this question

8. Which of the following was a variable in the study? Your Answer

You may indicate multiple response options as there may have been
more than one variable. (3 marks)

a. Information processing speed

b. Age of the children
c. Vocabulary
d. Whether a child was multilingual or not
e. Syntax
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9. What is the measurement level of Reaction Time? (2 marks) Your Answer

a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Categorical
d. Interval
e. Ratio

10. What is the measurement level for the Number of Words Your Answer
Produced? (2 marks)

a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Categorical
d. Interval
e. Ratio

11. What type of statistic could be used to assess the relationship Your Answer
between the variables? (2 marks)

a. Standard deviation
b. t-test
c. Correlation
d. Test of normality
e. Mean

12. What is the Null Hypothesis for testing the relationship Your Answer
between the variables? (2 marks)

a. There is no relationship between the variables

b. There is a relationship between the variables
c. There is a directional relationship between the variables
d. There is a non-directional relationship between the variables
e. There is a positive relationship between the variables
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13. What is the best type of graph to illustrate the relationship Your Answer
between information processing speed and vocabulary? (2 marks)

a. Histogram
b. Scatterplot
c. Box Plot
d. Bar Chart
e. 2 * 2 Table

14. Which of the following statements is True for the study? Your Answer

You may indicate multiple response options as there may be more than
one True statement. (2 marks)

a.The study revealed a causal effect since faster information processing

speed led to better syntax.

b. The study revealed a relationship between information processing

speed and syntax but no causation can be determined because the
variables were not systematically manipulated.

c. The study revealed a relationship between information processing

speed and syntax but no causation can be determined because there
was also a relationship between processing speed and vocabulary.

d. All of the above statements are True.

e. None of the above statements are True.

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Please read the following study description and then answer questions 15 – 19.
A researcher was interested in the association between students’ memory performance and
exam scores. A random sample of 10 participants completed a memory task (how many
words they remembered from a list of 20 words) at the start of the term. Their exam scores
were recorded at the end of term. The researcher then used a Pearson test to assess the
association between these variables.

Memory Exam
performance score
6 140
9 125
11 110
9 120
7 130
12 100
5 150
13 90
8 115
11 105

15. What is the correlation coefficient for the association between Your Answer
memory performance and exam scores, rounded to two decimals?

You may use SPSS or compute this value manually. (2 marks)

a. 0.97
b. -0.9
c. -0.97
d. 0.9
e. -0.95

16. How many degrees of freedom (df) are there for the correlation Your Answer
coefficient you calculated in question 15? (2 marks)

a. -1
b. 1
c. 7
d. 8
e. 9
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17. Is the correlation coefficient you calculated in question 15 Your Answer

significant?

Answer by typing Yes or No. (2 marks)

18. Which of the following statements is True for the study? Your Answer
(2 marks)

a. Higher memory scores are associated with higher exam scores.

b. Higher memory scores are associated with lower exam scores.

19. What is the direction and strength of the relationship between Your Answer
memory performance and exam scores? (2 marks)

a. Negative and Strong

b. Negative and Weak
c. Positive and Strong
d. Positive and Weak
e. Non-directional and Neutral
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For question 20, calculate the row and column totals for the following table about pet
ownership from a sample of students.
Own pet No pet Total
Male students 70 50
Female students 80 40
Total

20. Answer the following questions based on the above completed Your Answer
table.

Fill in the Blank with a numerical value (1 mark each = 5 marks total)

a. There were ___ students who owned pets.

b. There were ___ students who did not own pets.

c. There were ___ male students who owned pets.

d. There were ___ female students in the sample.

e. The sample size was ___.

For question 21, please use your answers from question 20 to complete the following
table with conditional (relative) percentages (rounded to a whole number).
Own pet No pet Total
Male students 100%
Female students 100%

21. Answer the following questions based on the above completed Your Answer
table.

Fill in the Blank with a numerical value (1 mark each = 4 marks total)

a. ___ % of male students owned pets.

b. ___ % of male students did not own pets.

c. ___ % of female students owned pets.

d. ___ % of female students did not own pets.

22. Based on your answers to question 21, conduct a Chi-Squared Your Answer
Test of Independence to determine whether gender is associated
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with pet ownership. (3 marks each = 12 marks total)

a. State the value of the χ2 test statistic.

b. State the number of degrees of freedom (df) for the χ2 test statistic?

c. Is the result of the test significant? Please state Yes or No.

d. Is the following statement a correct interpretation of the test? Please

state Yes or No.

Gender is associated with pet ownership because a greater percentage

of female students than male students owned pets.

Please read the following survey description and then answer questions 23 and 24.
A researcher surveyed 40 people and asked them how many phone calls they made the
previous day. The results are displayed in the table below.
Number of Phone Calls made Frequency
1-4 16
5-8 12
9-12 6
13-16 4
17-20 2

23. What percentage of people made less than nine phone calls? (2 Your Answer
marks)

24. What is the probability that a randomly chosen person from Your Answer
the sample made between 13 to 20 phone calls? (2 marks)
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Please refer to the following diagram and then answer question 25.

25. A normally distributed variable has a Mean of 100 and a Your Answer
Standard Deviation of 15.

Fill in the Blanks with numerical values. (1 mark each = 6 marks total)

a. 68.3% of scores are between ___ and ___.

b. 95.5% of scores are between ___ and ___.

c. 99.7% of scores are between ___ and ___.

26. What is the probability of a normal random variable taking a Your Answer
value less than 1.8 SDs above its mean (rounded to one decimal)?
(3 marks)

27. What is the probability of a normal random variable taking a Your Answer
value less than 2.34 SDs below its mean (rounded to a whole
number)? (3 marks)
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28. What is the probability of a normal random variable taking a Your Answer
value more than 1.91 SDs above its mean (rounded to one
decimal)? (3 marks)

Please read the following scenario and then answer questions 29 -32.
The height of men in the UK is normally distributed with a mean of 177 cm and standard
deviation of 12 cm.
29. What is the probability of a UK man being shorter than 145 cm Your Answer
(rounded to 2 decimals)? (3 marks)

30. What is the probability of a UK man being taller than 195 cm Your Answer
(rounded to 1 decimal)? (3 marks)

31. If all UK men suddenly grew 5 cm in height, what would Your Answer
happen to the population mean? (3 marks)

a. It would become 172 cm

b. It would stay the same
c. It would become 177 cm
d. It would become 182 cm
e. Not enough information has been provided to answer this question

32. If all UK men suddenly grew 5 cm in height, what would Your Answer
happen to the population standard deviation? (3 marks)

a. It would become 5 cm
b. It would become 7 cm
c. It would stay the same
d. It would become 17 cm
e. Not enough information has been provided to answer this question