Quantitative Research Methods Midterm

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Pregunta 1

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Overgeneralizations are
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  • 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

Pregunta 2

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Inaccurate observations are
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  • 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

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Selective observation is
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  • 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

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Illogical reasoning is when
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  • 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

Pregunta 5

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

Pregunta 6

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

Pregunta 7

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

Pregunta 8

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

Pregunta 9

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

Pregunta 10

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

Pregunta 11

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

Pregunta 12

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

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

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

Pregunta 15

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

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What does the TCPS and REB stand for?
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  • 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

Pregunta 17

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

Pregunta 18

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There are all guiding principles of the TCPS except:
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  • 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

Pregunta 19

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What are the six main components to conduct ethical research?
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  • 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

Pregunta 20

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

Pregunta 21

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

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

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

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Research is not intrusive by nature.
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  • True
  • False

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

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

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

Pregunta 28

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

Pregunta 29

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

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

Pregunta 31

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When you analyze and report your findings you should do all of these except:
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  • 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

Pregunta 32

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

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

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

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

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

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An unit of observation
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  • 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

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

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

Pregunta 40

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

Pregunta 41

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Ecological fallacy occurs when
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  • 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

Pregunta 42

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

Pregunta 43

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

Pregunta 44

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

Pregunta 45

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Conceptualization involves
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  • 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

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

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

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

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Concepts are building blocks for theories
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  • True
  • False

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

Pregunta 51

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

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

Pregunta 53

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

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

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

Pregunta 56

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The test-retest method suggests
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  • 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

Pregunta 57

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Precision is _________ while accuracy is __________.
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  • 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

Pregunta 58

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

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You can have high reliability without vailidity
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 60

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you can have validity with reliability
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  • True
  • False
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