Child 400 Research Methods Final Exam Questions with Verified Answers
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FAML 400
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FAML 400
Difference between agreement and experiential reality.
Advantages and disadvantages of each. - Answer-Agreement: What others tell you (tradition and authority)
Experiential: Your own experience (could be overgeneralized, selective observation, inaccurate)
Steps of Quantitative Research - Answe...
Child 400 Research Methods Final Exam
Questions with Verified Answers
Difference between agreement and experiential reality.
Advantages and disadvantages of each. - Answer-Agreement: What others tell you
(tradition and authority)
Experiential: Your own experience (could be overgeneralized, selective observation,
inaccurate)
Steps of Quantitative Research - Answer-1. Question
2. Hypothesis
3. Test hypothesis and collect data
4. Draw conclusions
5. Share it
dependent vs independent variable - Answer-Dependent variable is altered by the
independent variable.
What are the 3 necessary criteria for est. causation? - Answer-1. Temporal priority (one
comes before another in time)
2. Covariation should exist between variables
3. All alternative explanations are accounted for
What is a spurious relationship? - Answer-an apparent relationship between two factors
that has the appearance of linkage but, in reality, does not due to a third variable
What is the difference between a substantive or research hypothesis and a null
hypothesis? - Answer-Null: no difference between variables/ no relationship
Research/ Substantive: the hypothesis we are testing.
Hypotheses are testable statements
Know how to write a clear substantive hypothesis - Answer-
Why should one conduct social scientific research? Positivist vs. Interpretive
Perspective - Answer-Positivist:
- Discover and document universal laws
- Learn about how the world works
- Predict what till happen next
Interpretive:
- Discover how people construct meaning in natural settings
- Understand and describe meaningful social action
- Want to know how individuals experience every day life
, What is the basic nature of human beings? Positivist vs interpretive perspective -
Answer-Positivist:
- Self-interested and rational individuals who are shaped by external forces
Interpretive:
- Social being who creates meaning and who constantly makes sense of their world
How does one determine whether an explanation is true or false? Positivist vs.
interpretive perspective - Answer-Positivist:
- Two conditions of truth: No logical contradictions and consistent with observed facts.
- Replication is also needed
Interpretive:
- It is true if it makes sense to those being studied and allows others to understand
deeply.
What are 4 ways that the rights of subjects were violated in the NOVA documentary
"Deadly Deception?" - Answer-- No consent
- Physical harm (withholding treatment)
- Harm to family (contracting syphillis)
- selective sample
Know the definition of each: simple random, systematic random, stratified &
multistage/cluster sampling - Answer-Simple Random Sampling
- Where each sample element has an equal opportunity to be selected
Systematic Random Sampling:
- Select first sample element randomly, then select every kth case.
Stratified sampling:
- Stratify or randomly select your sample in separate parts based on the known
distribution of certain characteristics within the larger population of interest.
Multistage cluster sampling:
- Randomly select a set of larger sampling elements (neighborhoods, census tracts,
schools). Next, randomly select individual households or people from within those larger
elements that are selected.
Understand the difference between the following levels of measurement:
- nominal
- ordinal
- interval
- ratio - Answer-Nominal: Naming, categorical
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