A.

Research Quiz
Task: Design a study to see if the use of technology affects students’ sleep.

1. What would be the IV of your study? (Make sure that your variable is fully operationalized.) [2]

2. What would be the DV? (It has to be fully operationalized.) [2]

3. Which design would you use and why? [3]

4. Which experiment type would you use among : true/ natural/ quasi-experiment? Why? [3]

B. Sampling Techniques

Random Self-selected Opportunity

Snowball Stratified Purposive

1. Identify the given sampling technique and explain why you think the researchers have chosen
such method.
a. Study : effect of music on student’s ability to prepare for an assessment.
- The researcher put an ad in the school newspaper to look for participants. [1]

2. Study : how different cultures cope with IB stress

- Which sampling techniques would result in the most representative sample, and why?
[2]

3. Study : how music affects student’s ability to solve problem

- What would be the most representative sample, and why? [2]

4. Study: how high school students spend their free time

- Sample : students from five local high schools. Which sampling technique is this? How
do we know? [2]

5. Study : homosexual males who have suffered from domestic violence by their partners
- All of them are members of the same support group.
- The researcher asked participants if they know someone else from the group who may
be willing to take part in the study.
- Which method is it, and why do you think researcher is using such method? [2]

C. Critical Thinking
A psychologist wants to understand how people coped with the lockdown during the
Coronavirus. Specifically, she wants to better understand people’s eating habits, potential weight
gain, and their body image during this two-month period. To carry out her study, she goes to a local
gym for three hours on a Monday morning (from 11 - 13:00) and asks people if they would be willing
to be interviewed.

1. How might the psychologist’s sample be biased? How might this affect the outcome of the
study? [3]

2. What if the researcher had instead used a sample of university students? Any potential
limitations? [3]