Ch.1 Questions

Juanita decided to study the differences among students who choose different majors..

1 of her variables isn't really a variable because it has only one attribute

The attributes of the variable college class level include:

1st year, sophomore, jr., sr.

Jeffery wished to explain why his sister chose to attend State University, based on pattern of current university enrollments, student's social economic back ground, and other demographic statistics data. What is Jeffery doing?

A Nomothetic explanation

which of the following best represents an aggregate of people?

A collection of 18 year old students asked about their voting habits

The "Halo-effect" occurs when...

A very moral, upstanding person, who is like an angel, conducts research

Joe wished to explain every possible reason why his sister chose to attend State University, including personal family, school, peer, and other types of influences. What Joe is doing is called?

An idiographic explanation

Makita studied the literature on binge drinking and discovered a pattern between gender and binge drinking that might be logically and theoretically expected. What is being reflected?

Deductive

Induction is a better approach to theory than deduction

Fasle

Nora observed people in her sunday school for several months and then determined if there was a pattern in the different responses of mean and women. What is reflected?

Inductive

The distinction between quantitative and qualitative data is...

Numerical and non-numerical data

Georgette observed a few preschool children at play and saw what she thought was a pattern in all preschool children's play behavior. She committed which error?

Overgeneralization

Scientific approach, casual reasoning suggest that:

Present circumstances cause future circumstances (cause and effect)

Professor Davis said that his research report is undergoing a "blind review." What does this mean?

Researchers who review and evaluate the study do not know that Professor Davis wrote the report, and he does not know who will be the reviewers.

Organized skepticism

Scientists should not accept new ideas or evidence in a carefree, uncritical manner, but challenge and question new evidence.

Van wants to use social science to help him decide if Protestantism is a better religion than Catholicism. As a methodologist, your best response would be:

Sorry, science can not settle debates about values

Samuel's grandma informed him that the moon cycles affect delinquent behavior. What source of knowledge does this reflect?

Tradition

The culture we live in provides a source of knowledge known as a tradition?

True

Vanesha wishes to use church attendance as a factor in her study...

Variable and attributes

Professor Rodgers examined survey information about people who were 65 years of age and older. He found the average level of happiness reported increased from 1982 to 2002. He concluded that people under 65 years of age also experienced increasing levels of happiness from 1982 to 2002. The error he committed is called

overgeneralization

Epistemology is the:

science of knowing