soc 301 final (2)

among professional social scienteist what is the most common form of research report

a peer-reviewed article in a refereed journal

a researcher is getting ready to gather data from a nationally representative sample of 5,000 americans on their attitudes toward voting in local elections. in order to make sure our measure are reliable, we might gather a random sample of 100 americans and test the study. What would we call this preliminary study?

a pilot-study

there are different types of confusion that can emerge around a study's unit of analysis. if a researcher draws conclusions about individuals using group-level data, the mismatch is called__ if they draw conclusions about a group based on individual-level data, the mismatch is called

an ecological fallacy; reductionism

shoe is planning two different studies. one will be a content analysis of how often romantic storylines occur among older adult movie characters. the second will be a study of whether those who see older adults in romantic fillm roles have different attitudes about older adullts' measuremtn shoe will most likely use for the first study is ___. alternatively she will problaly use __ as the form of measurement for the second study

artifact counts; manipulation

if a researcher is struggling with data ina longitudianl study of job statisfaction bc the composition of the sample has changed over time, they most likely dealing witha problem of

attrition

elise finsihses her study of child actors in theater settings and decides to publish it as a monograph. she writes a

book-length publication that includes the research methods and findings

dr. machi writes an abstract as apart of his research report. the purpose of the abstract is to

briefly summarize the research report

in scientific research, an idea that can be clearly named defined and eventually measured is called a

concept

if the researcher has not tapped into all the dimensions of difficulties for first genreation college students which of the following would be at risk

content validity

lincoln and guba argue that instead of valifity and relability qualitative research should instead be judged based on

credibility and dependability

sarah submits a manuscript to the American Journal of Sociology and recieves a brief laetter staes his manuscript is not being considered and was not even sent out for peer this is an example of a(n) ___ reject.

desk

which question would most likely be used as the basis for evaluation research?

do housing subsidies reduce overcrowded housing

ordinaty least square (OLS) regression is a statistical procedure that does what

estimares how well changes in the indeprendent variables predict changes in the dependent variable

a factory owner wants to know whether the asssembly line workers feel adequately rewarded and appreciated. He hires a social scientist to conduct.

evaluation research

there are approx. equal numbers of men and women in the US population. if a researcher wants to study the impact of gender on whether teenagers decide to apply to college, but only includes women in the study, which of the following would be in jeopardy

external validity

the researcher might also ask about whether they have ever been treated unfairly by store clerks or their neighbors. After writing the questions on their survey, the ressearchers felt they had accurate measurs of discrimination because they seemed right. what kind of validity would they feel they achieved?

face vailidity

if a researcher creates a measure of exercise frequency by averaging individual reports of exercise behavior avross a neighborhood, this researcher is studying exercise at the ___ level

group

for which of the following would it make sense to tmeasuere using a composite variable

happiness

an author submits a journal article and receives an editiorial decision of "revise and resubmit" the author is probalby

happy, becuase this is the most common path toward publiciation and she will be able to improve the article with the feedback of her peers

Lucinda completes her study of people's attitudes toward affirmative action and finishes collecting her data, but while analyzing the data, she realizes she should have reworded certain questions in her questionnaire. wht should Lucinda do with this insight?

include this limitation in the discussion section; it is a sign of habing a critical mind

social scientists prefer the active voice over the passive voice because the active voice

indicates who took action in the sentence.

experiments might potentially be critiqued for problems with external validity. why?

it is hard to know if what happens in a lab setting will happen in the real world

it is desirable for a __ to have a ___ impact factor

journal; high

the NAS poverty line may offer a more accurate picture of poverty in the US than the FPL but it

may not be as relaible a measure over time

affonso plans to study the effect of degree type on the income of college graduates. in his study college major is an __ variable and individual annual income is an __ variable

nominal; ratio

qualiitative research often using an inductive approach typically starts with data collection, which means that conceptualizaton and operationalization

often come later than they do in quanitiative study

House is studying how chronic pain affects people's work lives. he has collected a massive amount of scholarly lit related to his topic. he read some of it and plans to read more late. he used some of it in his study while other parts will be useful in a future related study. what belongs inthe bibliogrpahy of his study about chronic pain and work lives

only the sources he cited in the research report

in the quantitative social science research process moving froma concrete definition of a concept to an actual measure of he defined concept involves

operationalization

if a researcher wanted to see how spouses martitial qualtiy changed over time if and when children were born they would probably use a ___ design

panel study

an evalution report is usually more __ whereas a research report is usually more __

practical; theoretical

the key difference between an interval and a ratio variable is that only

raito variable s have a true zero point

len plans to study the effect of age on standardized test performance, and chooses to represent age with number of years of age and to represent standardized test performance with graduate record examination GRE scores which are very similiar to scholastic achievement test SAT. in this study age is a __ variable and GRE scores are a __ variable

ratio; interval

12. matt has designed a survey study in which he asks about respondents' marital quality. he adminstgers the survey to several different samples over the course of two years and discovers that the respondents do not seem to be answering the martial qualtiy question in very consistent ways. this suggests mateo's measure of marital qualtiy has a ___ problem

reliability

if a researcher were interested inthe general attitude trends of a society over time they would problalby use a __ design

repeated cross-sections

the split-half method is when

researchers randomly split the set of items for a measure into two sets to create two separate measures instead of one.

syd has been very careful to clearly define the construct of job statisifcation in her study of employed parents. this is important to ensure that

she and those reading her study are thinnking of the same meaning of job satisfaction

the test-retest method is an approach in which

the same measure is administered to a sample and then re-admistered to the same samplelater

when researchers want to test robustness or how well an operational protocol is working they might use which of the following techniques?

the test-retest method

which of the following terms refers to whether results are true or accurate

validity

in a research study, which of the following steps typically occurs first?

write literature review