Research Methods Final

What type of gouping is it if Dr. Luther randomly selects 20 groups of 500 kids and then he randomly selects 100 from each group?

Cluster sampling

Twila designs a sociology research study about gender based violence. After she proposes the study, she decides that she really wants it to be applied research. According, she refines it to

Evaluate a local nonprofit organization devoted to reducing domestic violence.

Her subjects being traumatized by talking about their experiences would be an assessment of what and what that is central to IRB review process?

Risks, benefits

If she wants to ensure that she has an equal number of undergraduate and graduate students, what type of sampling method?

Stratified

Dr. Ngayen is interested in better understanding which students at the U of H abroad. Her target population is all..

Students at u of h

The same measure is administered ti a sample and then re administered to the sample later

Test-rtest method

How are focus groups conducted

The researcher serves as a moderator, guiding the group members as they discuss the topic.

Which of the following studies would have the least external validity?

a case study examining an environmental organization

In depth interviewing is a research method that results in detailed understanding of an interviewees

experiences, thoughts, and feelings

Mihir is interested in the relationship between social class and academic achievement. He is most interested in establishing cause-effect relationships between social class variables and academic achievement variables. Which research method should be used? Survey Experiment Ethnography Archival analyse

experiment

If the various observers agree when they look at the data they will have received what?

inter coder reliability

If a researcher wanted to see how spouses marital quality changed overtime if and when children are born, he or she would probably use what type of study?

panel study

Observation about the noise level in the household, how well the respondent understood the questions, and whether another family member was present are examples of what?

paradata

A broad set of taken for granted and often unacknowledged assumptions about how social reality is to be defined is

paradigm

Why would an ethnographer seek out a gatekeeper? To receive IRB approval to gain access to a field site to develop a sample to choose a topic

to gain access to a field site

If you are interested in studying a city that has similar features to the average city in the united states, what type of case should select?

typical

When the following terms are true or accurate

validity

Linda hypothesizes that increasing wealth does not increase happiness. In this hypothesis what is the independent variable

wealth

what is a strategy survey designers use for avoiding response set?

word some questions positively and other negatively.

A hypothesis is a ----statement of a ----between to concepts

testable, relationship

Dr. S knows he has reached saturation in his ethnography study of shark attack survivors when what happens?

Additional data are no longer yielding new insights

What kind of institutions must have institutional review boards?

Any institution that receives research money from the federal government

new media is particularly well suited to providing sociologists with

Facts that were reported at the time of an event or events

Age in years is a good example of the nominal level of measurement

False

Concepts studied in the social sciences have meanings that are understood well by almost all members of a population

False

Inductive research begins the research process with theory, from which a hypothesis is derived.

False

It is only important to maintain participants' confidentiality in rare cases.

False

purposive sampling selects elements for inclusion in the sample based on chance

False

reports, observation, artifact counts, and manipulation are the four basic what?

Forms of measurement

Experiments might potentially be critiqued for problems with external validity why?

It is hard to know what happens in a lab setting will happen in the world

Josephine is doing a study on how school level rates predicted students risks of illegal drug use. Her RQ is focused on the effect of being what?

School with a certain graduation rate

Changing has been very careful to clearly define the construct of job satisfaction in her study of employed parents. This is an important step to ensure.

She and those reading her study are thinking the same.

A census tries to collect data from every element in the entire population of interest

True

Institutions seeking federal funds for research invovling human subjects must have a group that reviews research proposals.

True

Longitudinal research collects data at the more than one point in time

True

Survey research collects information from individuals through responses to standardized questions

True

When the findings of the study accurately represent empirical reality, the results are said to be valid

True

sherry conducts in-depth inteviews about how campers adjust to rainy conditions. Her sample was not based on a probability sample; therefore she CANNOT know

Whether her findings are true of all campers

A sociologist asks, "what sparks a positive change in institution structures." Which of the following represents a materials based methodology for this study

analysis of meeting agendas and minutes

She ensures her subjects confidentiality because before the study she received a what?

certificate of confidentiality

Questions that allow researchers to easily compare responses

close ended

If a variable has an infinite set of possible values from low to high, it is a variable.

continuous

Julio asks 500 students in his course to do his survey. What type of sampling is this?

convenience sampling

Which approach to research refers to the translation of general theory into specific empirical analysis?

deductive

Mode most susceptible interviewer effects

face to face interviews

If we want to establish that our conclusions are ____ we must test our hypothesis across a range of subgroups.

generalizable

what refers to the possibility that the more presence of interviewers personal characteristics, may lead to a respondent to answer questions in a particular way potentially biasing the survey results.

interviewer effects

Three levels

macro meso micro

In the quantitative social science research process, moving from a concrete definition of a concept to an actual measure of the defined concept involves what?

operationalization

A repeated cross-sectional design results in description of change or continuity

over time

in what sampling, cases are deliberately selected on a basis of features that distinguish them from other careers

purposive

What is the process that ensures that participants have an equal likelihood of being assigned to experimental or control conditions

random assignment

when something is consistent, dependent, and predictable what is it?

reliable

If a researcher were interested in the general attitude trend of a society over time, he or she would probably use a

repeated cross sections design

weakness of face-to-face interviews compared to other modes of administration?

respondents are more susceptible to social desirability bias

Jamal wants to study racial representation on children's TV shows He made a list of every TV show that aired on Nick Jr from 2000-2015 this list of TV shows is a what that he will use to draw a probability sample.

sampling frame

When sampling it is important to be

strategic and methodical about what you observe

sampling that allows researchers to over sample groups so that researchers have more data on those groups than they would

stratified