Psychological Research Methods and Cognitive Biases Quiz

Test your knowledge of cognitive psychology with questions on biases, research methods, and statistical measures. How well do you understand human behavior?

#1

Which of the following is a cognitive bias where people tend to give undue importance to their first impression?

Confirmation Bias
Recency Bias
Halo Effect
Availability Heuristic
#2

What is the term for the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories?

Confirmation Bias
Belief Perseverance
Illusory Correlation
Sunk Cost Fallacy
#3

Which of the following is a research method that involves studying the same group of individuals over an extended period?

Cross-sectional Study
Longitudinal Study
Experimental Study
Case Study
#4

What is the term for the tendency to favor information that confirms one's preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true?

Hindsight Bias
Confirmation Bias
Observer Effect
Recency Bias
#5

What is the term for the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions?

Recency Bias
Anchoring Bias
Availability Heuristic
Hindsight Bias
#6

What type of research method involves observing and recording behavior in its natural environment without intervention or manipulation?

Experimental Research
Descriptive Research
Correlational Research
Observational Research
#7

Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events with greater 'availability' in memory?

Confirmation Bias
Anchoring Bias
Availability Heuristic
Hindsight Bias
#8

What is the term used to describe the phenomenon where participants in a study change their behavior because they know they are being observed?

Confirmation Bias
Observer Effect
Hawthorne Effect
Social Desirability Bias
#9

Which research method involves manipulating one or more variables to observe the effect on another variable, while controlling other factors?

Experimental Research
Descriptive Research
Correlational Research
Observational Research
#10

What is the term for the phenomenon where individuals perceive nonexistent patterns or connections in random or meaningless data?

Confirmation Bias
Illusory Correlation
Availability Heuristic
Hindsight Bias
#11

Which cognitive bias refers to the tendency to give greater importance to recent events and disregard older ones?

Recency Bias
Primacy Bias
Hindsight Bias
Availability Heuristic
#12

Which of the following is a statistical measure used to indicate the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables?

Standard Deviation
Correlation Coefficient
Regression Analysis
T-test
#13

What statistical test is used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups?

Chi-square test
ANOVA
T-test
Regression Analysis
#14

Which statistical measure is used to quantify the degree and direction of a linear relationship between two continuous variables?

Cohen's d
Correlation Coefficient
Chi-square
Regression Coefficient
#15

Which statistical test is used to compare means across three or more groups?

T-test
ANOVA
Chi-square
Regression Analysis
#16

Which statistical test is used to determine if there is a significant relationship between two categorical variables?

Correlation Coefficient
Chi-square test
T-test
ANOVA

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