What do we want to know as social scientists? - Answer-We are looking for reality
Overgeneralize - Answer-You are at a graduation and ask the first four graduates you encounter whether they valued the UVU experience.
All said yes
But perhaps they were buddies who were all straight A students
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BESC 3020 Test #1 Exam Questions and
Answers
What do we want to know as social scientists? - Answer-We are looking for reality
Overgeneralize - Answer-You are at a graduation and ask the first four graduates you
encounter whether they valued the UVU experience.
All said yes
But perhaps they were buddies who were all straight A students
You couldn't say this was the reality for ALL graduates - you would be ____________
inaccurate observations - Answer-This is sometimes because we are not consciously
observing
Selective Observation - Answer-When we overgeneralize we focus on a pattern and the
reasons for this pattern
We would assume that all students experience UVU in a positive light
We would be ignoring, for instance, those whose first language is not English and for
that reason may not view the UVU experience in the same light - we would be missing
something
illogical reasoning - Answer-If I tell you I am going to give 3 random quizzes in class
during the semester and I give you one in February and one in March you might
assume that the next will be in April - but I might give it during the class immediately
following the March one.
___________ ________: we can't reason (logically) that based on what 4 graduating
students tell us we have a complete picture
Fundamental association of social science - Answer-1. No strict order but there are
patterns and trends - social regularities
2. What causes these patterns and trends are knowable
Independent Variable - Answer-presumed to cause a change in the other
Dependent Variable - Answer-assumed to depend on the independent variable
Inductive - Answer-moves from
(a) particular observations to
(b) discovery of a pattern underlying the particular observations
deductive - Answer-moves from
(a) a pattern that might be logically or theoretically expected to
(b) observations that confirm or otherwise the expected pattern
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