A psychologist investigating persistence gives participants a difficult puzzle. When each participant stops, she asks them to rate how hard they tried on a scale from 1 to 10. Which pair of labels, with the correct reason, describes these ratings?
Quantitative and secondary because the ratings are numbers that the participants supplied about themselves.
Qualitative and primary because the ratings are personal opinions and the psychologist collected them for this study.
Quantitative and primary because the ratings are numbers and the psychologist collected them for this study.
Qualitative and secondary because the ratings are personal opinions that the participants supplied about themselves.
173 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.3 Analysing Research, covering 7.3.1 Types of Data, 7.3.2 Measures of central tendency, 7.3.3 Other descriptive statistics, 7.3.4 Tables, Charts and Graphs, 7.3.5 Reliability, 7.3.6 Validity and effects on validity, and 7.3.7 Sources of bias. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.