Question 1: What is the purpose of collecting data in psychological research?

Answer: To find out information about people's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors and to see if there are patterns or relationships.

Question 2: Describe what a researcher might do to collect qualitative data during an experiment.

Answer: They might ask participants to give detailed answers in interviews or write about their experiences in open-ended questions.

Question 3: Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative data with examples.

Answer: Quantitative data involves numbers, such as how many times someone blinks, while qualitative data involves descriptions, like how happy someone feels.

Question 4: A researcher records the number of times students raise their hands during a lesson. What type of data is this?

Answer: Quantitative data because it involves numbers.

Question 5: Why is it important to analyze data carefully after collecting it?

Answer: To understand what the data shows, find patterns, and draw accurate conclusions from the research.

Question 6: Describe a simple way to organize data collected from a survey about students’ favorite colors.

Answer: Create a chart or table listing each color and the number of students who chose it.

Question 7: Imagine you are asked to compare two sets of data: one about students’ favorite sports and another about their favorite music genres. What basic method could you use?

Answer: You could look at the numbers or percentages in each set to see which is more popular.

Question 8: Sketch a bar chart that shows the number of students in a class who prefer different types of music: pop, rock, jazz, and classical. Leave space for the bars and labels.

Answer: A bar chart with four bars, each labeled with a music genre. The height of each bar represents the number of students who prefer that genre. The bars should be evenly spaced and clearly labeled on the x-axis with the genres and on the y-axis with numbers.

Question 9: What does it mean if data shows a 'trend' in a psychological study?

Answer: It means there is a pattern or consistent change in the data over time or between groups.

Question 10: A psychologist finds that students who sleep more tend to perform better in exams. What type of analysis might they have used?

Answer: They likely used correlational analysis to see if there was a relationship between sleep and exam performance.

Question 11: Draw a simple table with two columns labeled 'Number of Hours Sleep' and 'Exam Score'. Include three rows of example data showing different sleep hours and corresponding scores.

Answer: A table with two columns: 'Number of Hours Sleep' (e.g., 5, 7, 9) and 'Exam Score' (e.g., 60, 75, 85). Three rows filled with example data showing the relationship.