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Which one of the following statements is not part of the Code of Ethics developed by the American Sociological Association? Researchers must_______________?
A. acknowledge research collaboration and assistance
B. preserve the confidentiality of their subjects
C. protect their subjects from personal harm
D. make all research notes available for public scrutiny
When a number of researchers use the same operational definition to measure a variable and achieve the same results the measure is said to be_______________?
A. valid
B. reliable
C. factual
D. internally consistent
E. instrumental
Eyeballing is a technique that involves________________?
A. reading a textual document quickly to understand the gist of it
B. gathering a sample from whoever you can see in a public place
C. scanning a table to identify general patterns and significant figures
D. keeping your eyes on research participants at all times
One of the difficulties in open rationalizing concepts like social class is that____________?
A. definitions and indicators can vary making valid comparisons problematic
B. there are no reliable indicators of such widely contested ideas
C. it takes all the fun out of armchair theorizing
D. it has little use for applied empirical research about the topic
What research method is popular because it is comparatively inexpensive and well-suited to studying large numbers of people ?
A. interviews
B. participant observation
C. experiments
D. content analysis
E. surveys
In idealized views of science the experimental method is said to involve ?
A. testing out new research methods to see which one works best
B. isolating and measuring the effect of one variable upon another
C. using personal beliefs and values to decide what to study
D. interpreting data subjectively drawing on theoretical paradigms
naire and interview studies are systematic ways of asking s under______________?
A. Experiment situation
B. Scientific control
C. Normal circumstances
D. None of these
Bias in research practice refers to_____________?
A. the investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B. the research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C. the data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D. interpretations being applied to the results
The use of scientific research procedures to measure the effectiveness of an action program is called____________?
A. Evaluation research
B. analytical research
C. Scientific research
D. None of these
An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class she gives the students essay s She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the_______________?
A. control group
B. representative group
C. experimental group
D. correlation group
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