Social Research Methods Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Social Research Methods Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
(1) You have decided to read an article published in Law and Society. Professor Jones would
urge you to begin reading the article by: - answerReading the abstract and conclusions
(2) A good abstract DOES NOT include a statement about -...
Social Research Methods Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
(1) You have decided to read an article published in Law and Society. Professor Jones would
urge you to begin reading the article by: - answer✔Reading the abstract and conclusions
(2) A good abstract DOES NOT include a statement about - answer✔The findings of each table
and graph
(4) When names are removed from questionnaires and are replaced with id numbers so that only
the researcher can later link a response to a particular name, the researcher should tell the
respondent that the information is: - answer✔confidential
(5) Your friend asks you what constitutes informed consent in social research? You tell him: -
answer✔It refers to the combination of no harm to subjects and the assurance that participation
is voluntary
(6) The process where subjects are interviewed and informed of any unrevealed purpose of the
research they are a part of is called - answer✔Debriefing
(7) The PRIMARY ethical research issue raised by the Milgrim study was - answer✔The
effects of the methods on the teacher
(8) Ethical issues are distinguished from political issues in research in that - answer✔There are
no formal codes of accepted political conduct whereas there are codes of ethical conduct
(9) Walking with an open umbrella on a beautiful day or going home on semester break and
calling your mom or dad Mr. and Mrs. Are techniques used by ________ to understand social
form or rules - answer✔Ethnomethodologists
(10) A model or scheme for helping us organize and interpret the world is referred to as: -
answer✔Paradigm
(11) Which of the following topics would a macrotheorist be more likely to study than a
microtheorist? - answer✔The relationships between government, family, and the economy
(12) A ________ is a testable statement about a relationship between two variables -
answer✔Hypothesis
(15) Which of the following employs the nomothetic model of explanation? - answer✔An
isolation of the three most important reasons as to why men were selected to all the leadership
positions at a former women's college that went coed
(16) If a researcher wanted to know why there was a noticeable increase in the number of
burglaries in the town of Southpaw during 2005, the researcher would design an -
answer✔Explanatory study
(17) Professor Dooley examined the literature on AIDS and could find nothing that examined
children's attitudes toward parents and friends with AIDS. To examine this topic, Dooley should
undertake an: - answer✔Exploratory study
(18) To look at changes in the average age of marriage for men and women in US, professor
Jones studied the U.S. census over a period of decades. Jones was doing a: - answer✔Trend
Study
(20) Professor Jones asked some students to write down the number of hours they worked last
week. He then created the 4 categories of "20 hours or less," "20-40 hours," "40-60 hours," "60
hours or more." A social scientist would say that the professor's scheme is -
answer✔Exhaustive
(21) Classifying someone as employed or not employed treats employment as: -
answer✔Nominal Variable
(22) Which of the following sequences illustrates the progression of measurement steps in a fully
structured scientific study? - answer✔Conceptualization, nominal definition, operational
definition, and measurements in the real world
(23) A criminologist is interested in assessing perceptions of crime in each neighborhood of a
metropolitan area. He/she is planning to ask some people in each neighborhood, "how fearful are
you that crime will happen in your area?" Individuals who are asked this question can choose
between the following responses: "no fear" "some fear" "much fear" the criminologist would be
using the ___________ level of measurement - answer✔Ordinal Variable
(25) Which of the following steps index construction is the first one to be out of sequence? -
answer✔Examine the multivariate relationships among the items being considered for inclusion
(26) Likert scales are designed to be ________ in measurement - answer✔Ordinal
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