Test Bank Questions
Chapter 2
1. Alexis wants to research the 1960’s feminist movement. She reads articles from the time period, watches documentaries, reads scholarly journals on the topic, and interviews influential women from the movement. What kind of research method is Alexis using?
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1. Alexis wants to research the 1960’s feminist movement. She reads articles from the time
period, watches documentaries, reads scholarly journals on the topic, and interviews
influential women from the movement. What kind of research method is Alexis using?
a. Ethnography
b. Surveys
c. Experiments
d. Secondary data analysis*
2. Reliability is defined by the text as:
a. How well the study measures what it was designed to measure.
b. How long a study is expected to remain relevant and influential.
c. How close the study’s results come to the experimenter’s hypothesis.
d. A measure of a study’s consistency that considers how likely results are to be
replicated if a study is reproduced.*
3. John wants to study whether a larger number of laptops available to students at his school
lead to higher grades. Choose the independent and dependent variable.
a. Independent variable: Grades; Dependent variable: Number of laptops
b. Independent variable: John; Dependent variable: Grades
c. Independent variable: Grades; Dependent variable: John
d. Independent variable: Number of laptops; Dependent variable: Grades*
4. Quincia is studying how of the lack of comprehensive sex education is affecting a small,
rural town in North Dakota. She spends two months in the town, observing and
interviewing the townspeople. Quincia is conducting a(n) _____.
a. Ethnography*
b. Case study
c. Experiment
d. Secondary data analysis
5. A class of third graders is told that the assistant principal will be visiting their class to
confirm their teacher’s reports of bad behavior. When the principal visits, the students
behave perfectly. This is an example of ________.
a. The Authority Effect
b. The Regressive Effect
c. The Hawthorne Effect*
d. The Cognizant Effect
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