Quantitative Research Methods Midterm

Beschreibung

i hate my life
Jamie Savoie
Quiz von Jamie Savoie, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
Jamie Savoie
Erstellt von Jamie Savoie vor mehr als 8 Jahre
49
0

Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

Frage
Overgeneralizations are
Antworten
  • when you exclude information
  • is when you make assumptions that are not scientifically based
  • when there is pressure to understand something and it contributes to bias
  • when you cannot accurately recall information

Frage 2

Frage
Inaccurate observations are
Antworten
  • when there is pressure to understand something and it contributes to bias
  • when you cannot accurately recall information
  • when you make assumptions that are not scientifically based
  • when you exclude information

Frage 3

Frage
Selective observation is
Antworten
  • when you exclude information
  • when you make assumptions that are not scientifically based
  • when you cannot accurately recall information
  • when you are pressured to understand something and it contributes to bias

Frage 4

Frage
Illogical reasoning is when
Antworten
  • you cannot accurately recall information
  • you are excluding information
  • there is pressure to understand something and it contributes to bias
  • you make assumptions that are not scientifically based

Frage 5

Frage
Pre-modern reality is
Antworten
  • when it was what is was
  • when people have opinions but understand others
  • that there is not objective reality

Frage 6

Frage
Quantitative data includes all of these aspects except:
Antworten
  • numbers
  • it's easier to compare
  • it understands specifics
  • catches complex social phenomena

Frage 7

Frage
Attributes are ___________ while variables are ____________.
Antworten
  • grouping of variables, measurable concepts
  • characteristics of people/things, independent
  • grouping of variables, issues to the problem
  • characteristics of people/things, grouping of attributes

Frage 8

Frage
Independent variables are presumed to cause of determine a dependent variable.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 9

Frage
Empirical support must correspond to what we observe.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 10

Frage
A theory can be a philosophy or a beleif.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 11

Frage
Physical Abuse affects a child's behaviour. The Abuse is the dependent variable and the child's behaviour is the independent variable.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 12

Frage
All of these are true about induction except:
Antworten
  • moving from specific to general
  • moving from general to specific
  • generating hypothesis/theory
  • none of the above

Frage 13

Frage
Deductive focuses on testing theories or hypothesis while Induction focuses on creating theories or hypothesis.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 14

Frage
Evidence-based program have gone under evaulation.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 15

Frage
All of these are scientific constraints when conducting social research except:
Antworten
  • Clinical
  • Administrative
  • Scientific
  • Ethical

Frage 16

Frage
What does the TCPS and REB stand for?
Antworten
  • Tri-collective Party Statement and Research Ethics Board
  • Tri-council Policy Statement and Research Ethics Board
  • Tri-collective Party Statement and Respectful Ethics Board
  • Tri-council Policy Statement and Respectful Ethics Board

Frage 17

Frage
There are two new policy statements concerning quantitative research and research on the elderly population.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 18

Frage
There are all guiding principles of the TCPS except:
Antworten
  • Respect privacy & confidentiality
  • Respect Justice
  • Respect vulnerable persons
  • Respect contact of person
  • Respect human dignity
  • Respect informed consent
  • Balancing harms & benefits
  • There are none to exclude

Frage 19

Frage
What are the six main components to conduct ethical research?
Antworten
  • disclosure, voluntary participation, no harm, confidentiality, deception, analysis & reporting
  • voluntary participation, no harm, confidentiality, deception, analysis & reporting
  • disclosure, voluntary participation, no harm, confidentiality, deception
  • disclosure, voluntary participation, no harm, confidentiality, analysis & reporting

Frage 20

Frage
It is okay to have harm in research and still have it be considered ethical
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 21

Frage
When an individual can be identified from the released output of the results of the research this is known as
Antworten
  • attribute
  • identity
  • residual

Frage 22

Frage
When an individual's confidential information is revealed and can be attributed to him/her is known as which kind of broken disclosure
Antworten
  • identity
  • attribute
  • residual

Frage 23

Frage
When an individual's information is released and it can be combined to obtain confidential data, this is known as
Antworten
  • Residual
  • Identity
  • Attribute

Frage 24

Frage
Research is not intrusive by nature.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 25

Frage
Voluntary participation involves a person to give permission to participate in the study.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 26

Frage
It is not necessary to tell your participants about all the risks so you do not receive bias information.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 27

Frage
You do not have to tell a client if a placebo is being used.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 28

Frage
It is best to avoid vulnerable populations such as children, the homeless and victims of abuse.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 29

Frage
Anonymity involves ___________ while confidentiality involves ___________.
Antworten
  • no trace of information , keeping information private
  • keeping information private, on trace of information

Frage 30

Frage
Deception is important and used often to get better results
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 31

Frage
When you analyze and report your findings you should do all of these except:
Antworten
  • show positive and negative results
  • be honest and open
  • include ideology that inhibit the findings
  • exercise care with vulnerable popoulations
  • benefits to scientific community must outweigh harm to subjects

Frage 32

Frage
_________ research involves becoming familiar with specific topics and examining a new interest or subject
Antworten
  • Descriptive
  • Exploration
  • Explanation

Frage 33

Frage
___________ involves reporting on characteristics of a population, situation or event and involves asking what, when, where and how.
Antworten
  • Explanitory
  • Exploritory
  • Descriptive

Frage 34

Frage
_________ involves answering why certain events happen and reports the relationships among different aspects of the phenomenon.
Antworten
  • Explanitory
  • Exploritory
  • Descriptive

Frage 35

Frage
Idiographic model of explanation involves
Antworten
  • enumeration of all the causes of an event
  • correlated variables
  • focusing on the significance
  • all of the above

Frage 36

Frage
An unit of analysis is what
Antworten
  • a research explains and draws inferences about
  • a direct observation
  • is known as a timed dimension
  • all of the above

Frage 37

Frage
An unit of observation
Antworten
  • is a direct observation
  • can be the same of the unit of analysis
  • can be an individual person, group, organization or social artifact
  • all of the above

Frage 38

Frage
An organization includes universities, church congregations and corporations.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 39

Frage
A married couple is an individual unit of observation.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 40

Frage
When studying riots that are occurring on the street you are focusing on which type of unit of observation
Antworten
  • Groups
  • Individuals
  • organizations
  • social artifacts
  • none of the above

Frage 41

Frage
Ecological fallacy occurs when
Antworten
  • assuming that something learned about an ecological unit says something about the individuals that make up the group
  • attributing something to a group based on the observed behaviour or characteristics of individuals
  • all of the above
  • none of the above

Frage 42

Frage
A cross sectional study is taken over a long period of time
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 43

Frage
A longitude study needs to have at least two waves of research conducted
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 44

Frage
These are all types of Longitude studies except
Antworten
  • Cohort
  • Panel
  • Retrospective
  • Trend

Frage 45

Frage
Conceptualization involves
Antworten
  • discussing central concepts of research & making them specific
  • defining all concepts in your research
  • performing a content analysis and applying the concepts
  • deciding on how you will measure concepts

Frage 46

Frage
A direct observables is
Antworten
  • what is in history books and mediums
  • what is in front of us
  • theoretical creations

Frage 47

Frage
A indirect observables is
Antworten
  • what is in front of us
  • a history book or medium
  • theoretical creations

Frage 48

Frage
A constructs concept is
Antworten
  • a direction observable
  • an indirect observable
  • neither a direct or indirect obsrvable
  • none of the above

Frage 49

Frage
Concepts are building blocks for theories
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 50

Frage
Conceptualization involves
Antworten
  • making concepts specific
  • agreeing on concepts
  • having an indicator
  • all of the above

Frage 51

Frage
Interchangeability involves
Antworten
  • various measures of the same concept on the same subjects
  • multiple indicators
  • different indicators for one concept should generally behave the same way

Frage 52

Frage
A single indicator may misclassify an individual, while multiple indicator will offset this effect
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 53

Frage
This type of dimension is when you try to figure our the "essence of a phenomena" and tries to make a concept more specific
Antworten
  • Real
  • Nominal
  • Operational

Frage 54

Frage
This type of dimension involves how a concept will be measured in research
Antworten
  • Real
  • Nominal
  • Operational

Frage 55

Frage
NOIR stands for:
Antworten
  • Nominal, Original, Interval, Ratio
  • Normal, Ordinal, Interval, Rational
  • Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio
  • Normal, Original, Interval, Ratio

Frage 56

Frage
The test-retest method suggests
Antworten
  • that you should make the same measurement more than once
  • you should assign a set of measurements to half of your sample and another to the other half
  • subjects don't change over time so testing and retesting can occur far apart
  • all of the above

Frage 57

Frage
Precision is _________ while accuracy is __________.
Antworten
  • fineness between attributes composing a variable, reflective of measure of actual attribute of a variable
  • caution when researching, reflective of measure of actual attribute of a variable
  • fineness between attributes composing a variable, reflective of reliablity

Frage 58

Frage
These are all important criteria for measuring quality except
Antworten
  • Precision & accuracy
  • Reliability
  • Operatualization
  • Validity

Frage 59

Frage
You can have high reliability without vailidity
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 60

Frage
you can have validity with reliability
Antworten
  • True
  • False
Zusammenfassung anzeigen Zusammenfassung ausblenden

ähnlicher Inhalt

Quantitative Methods
Rishabh Wadhwa
Apollo 13
kimberly.austin
BUS 214 CH 19
JACOB FEDORCHIK
Quantitative Methods
Mohammed Alzomor
z-score
Yara Habash
Ohne Titel
robyngminshall
Informatik
Tom Kühling
Euro-FH // Zusammenfassung SOPS2
Robert Paul
Vetie Radiologie Vorlesungsfragen
Sophie Lütkemöller
Vetie Chirurgie 2019
Péroline de Gail