Research Methods Final Exam

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what are the four purposes of research?

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exploration
description
explanation
application

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the major distinction between quantitative and qualitative

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numerical and nonnumeric data

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all but which of the following would be a unit of analysis?

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social causes

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which of the following is not a type of longitudinal study?

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cross sectional study

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if x is a independent variable and y is a dependent variable which of the following is correct?

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x is a sufficient cause of y if y always happens when x is present

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age of an offender is an example of which level of measurement?

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ratio

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a researcher concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will, after repeated measures, yield the same results is concerned with

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reliability

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what two qualities should every variable possess?

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exhaustive and mutually exclusive

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what type of variable allows you to arrange attributes from greater than to less than, but does not allow you to tell how much greater or how much less than one attribute is from another?

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ordinal

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a ____ asks people whether or not they have been the victim of a crime

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victim survey

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the NCVS is based on a nationally representative sample of

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household

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which of the following is not considered a threat to internal validity in an experimental design

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random assignment

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random assignment to experimental and control groups should reduce all but which of the following threats?

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generalizability

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if randomization is not possible which of the following is an option

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match on individual subjects' characteristics

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the threat of history refers to

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events external to the experiment that will impact the results

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maturation as a threat to internal validity in experiments refers to

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as people grow and change results can be impacted

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the goal of the classical experiment is for the researcher to

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have control over the independent variable

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when neither the subjects nor the researcher can identify which group is the control group and which is the experimental group, the design is said to be

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double-blind

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which of the following are reasons for using random selection methods in selecting samples?

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all of the above
(random selection is a check on conscious or unconscious bias, random selection gives access to probability, random selection allows for estimates)

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which of the following is not appropriate for use as a sampling frame?

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lists of licensed drivers when you wish to ask juveniles their opinions about drinking prohibitions

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in order to study active criminals who have not been arrested for their criminal acts the researcher would be wise to employ which type of sampling?

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snowball sampling

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quota samples, judgmental samples, snowball samples and convenience samples are samples of?

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non-probability samples

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multistage cluster sampling with stratification, systematic sampling, simple random sampling, and disproportionate stratified sampling are examples of

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probability sampling

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questions that encourage respondents to answer in a particular way are called

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biased

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the visible objective context of a communication is known as

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manifest content