Test bank

Chapter 13: Self-report data

1. Naturally occurring self-report data produced by:

a. responses to survey questions.

b. participants without being prompted by researchers.

c. interviewing participants.

d. All of these.

2. Elicited online forum data is collected when researchers have:

a. collected all Twitter posts on a particular topic.

b. set up an online forum.

c. collected the historic discussions from a Facebook.

d. set up an experiment online.

3. If a researcher was interested in better understanding how people experience chemotherapy using self-report data, they might ask participants to:

a. keep a daily diary about their experience(s).

b. record their thoughts and feelings.

c. take photographs representing their experience(s).

d. All of these.

4. Event-based ecological momentary assessment:

a. happens when researchers want to collect data when they are at corporate events.

b. is triggered when an event of interest to the researcher happens.

c. happens when researchers want to collect data when they are at corporate events and assessments are triggered when an event of interest to the researcher happens.

d. None of these.

5. Time-based ecological momentary assessment is used:

a. when an event of interest to the researcher happens.

b. to compare social media posts at different times of day.

c. when researchers invite participants to complete measures at different times.

d. All of these.

6. Self-report data is information produced by:

a. people and/or groups that researchers want to understand.

b. computer programmes.

c. data mining software.

d. the Office for National Statistics.

7. Self-report can only be analysed:

a. quantitatively.

b. qualitatively.

c. using mixed methods.

d. There is no one way of analysing self-report data.

8. Which of the following is NOT a form of self-report data?

a. Instagram images

b. fMRI scans

c. Diary entries

d. Replies to researchers’ tweets

9. YouTube can provide a form of:

a. naturally occurring data.

b. elicited data.

c. video data.

d. All of these.

10. Image based self-report data:

a. should not be used for student dissertations.

b. has become available as a psychological method since the invention of mobile phones.

c. has a long history in psychology.

d. does not constitute a form of self-report data.

11. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA):

a. explores public understandings of environmental issues.

b. is an approach that involves repeated sampling of participants in real time.

c. is an approach to data collection that does not take very long.

d. is an approach to data collection that samples one specific moment in time.

12. Data collected by a researcher asking a question on Twitter would be considered a form of:

a. ecological momentary assessment data.

b. elicited self-report data.

c. context induced mood.

d. critical incidence technique.

13. Instagram posts can represent a form of:

a. ephemeral data.

b. permanent data.

c. private data.

d. All of these.

14. Snapchat data is:

a. public and ephemeral.

b. private and permanent.

c. public and permanent.

d. private and ephemeral.

15. Content analysis:

a. is only suitable for the analysis of images.

b. is the preferred method of analysing social media data.

c. can be qualitative or quantitative.

d. is not suitable for psychological research.

16. Which type of data would always require permission from a ‘gate-keeper’ to access?

a. Snapchat screenshots

b. Tweets

c. Facebook stories

d. None of these

17. Which of the following questions does NOT use self-report data?

a. Asking women with breast cancer what led them to pursue complementary therapy

b. An analysis of the fMRI scans of women with breast cancer

c. Asking women about their experience of their bodies during chemotherapy for breast cancer

d. Asking women how they cope with the experience of chemotherapy

18. If an online forum is privately public, it:

a. is accessible by invitation only.

b. reveals your face, but not your address.

c. is freely accessible, but contains very little identifying information.

d. available only to adults above the age of 18.

19. If an online forum is publicly private, it is:

a. accessible by invitation only, and once you are a member, you can reveal identifying information.

b. accessible but you can only join if you are in disguise.

c. accessible to no more than 10 friends.

d. All of these.

20. Which type of data cannot ethically be used by researchers?

a. Snapchat screenshots

b. Publically private data

c. Twitter data collected without explicit consent

d. Privately-public data collected without the posters’ consent