Articles Tagged: Research Aptitude

Q) Suppose one Experimenter (E) in psychology firmly believes that Brahman in children are inherently superior to the Harijan children. Naturally he would never think of home environment as an explanation. This is a very obvious example of Options: A)Experimenter’s Bias B) Subject’s Bias C) Stimulus Error D) Response Error

Q) For a proposition to be true it is necessary that it should have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT Options: A)it must be objective B) it must be in tune with accepted beliefs. C) it must be consistent. D) it must be testable.

Q) Qualitative data analysis is still a relatively new and rapidly developing branch of research methodology. Options: A)TRUE B) FALSE C) Neither True nor False just a statement D) None of the above

Q) What makes people to undertake research ? Options: A)Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems. B) Desire to get a research degree along with it consequential benefits. C) Desire to get intellectual joy of doing some creative work. D) All of these

Q) What is the nature of the statement that experimental generalizations are statistical inferences; they can only attain a degree of probability somewhere along a continuum between truth and falsity? Options: A)Not wholly true B) Wholly true C) Incorrect entirely D) None of the above .

Q) While editing primary data, we have just to notice the information contained in the questionnaire is Options: A)Homogeneous B) consistent C) complete D) All of the above

Q) Why is it important to change one variable at a time in single case designs? Options: A)Changing one variable allows isolation of the cause of the change B) Changing more than one variable at a time confounds those independent variables C) Both A and B are true D) None of the above

Q) The research is always Options: A)Exploring new knowledge B) Verifying the old knowledge C) Filling the gap between the knowledge D) Including all the above

Q) Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behavior in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning? Options: A)Cognitive Approach B) Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach C) Stimulus-Response-behavioristic Approach D) Existential Approach

Q) The branch of psychology which (teals with the study of animal behavior is known as Options: A)Social Psychology B) Abnormal Psychology C) Differential Psychology D) Comparative Psychology