This states a possible relationship between two or more variables.
What is a hypothesis
100
A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other is referred to
What is a correlation?
100
The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession
What is the code of ethics
100
This is a detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically
What is a research design?
200
This step of the scientific method occurs after doing research on what other scientists have studied. This is what the researcher believes to be the relationship between variables.
What is formulate a testable hypothesis?
200
When sociologists wish to study a cause-and-effect relationship, they may conduct an
What is an experiment
200
In this relationship one variable causes something to occur in another variable
What is a causal relationship?
200
A factor that is held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable
What is the control variable?
200
A study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act
What is a survey?
300
After a researcher has defined the problem, this is what she will do next
What is review the literature?
300
Through which type of research technique does a sociologist ensure that data are statistically representative of the population being studied?
What is sampling
300
This refers to the extent to which a measure produces consistent results
What is reliability?
300
The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation
What is an ethnography?
300
Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data
What is value neutrality?
400
This terminates a specific phase of the investigation but also generates ideas for future study
What is developing the conclusion?
400
The variable in a causal relationship that causes or influences a change in the second variable.
What is the independent variable?
400
A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation and/or by closely watching a group or community
What is observation?
400
Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form
What is quantitative research?
400
Name the three most important aspects of the code of ethics
What is confidentiality, maintaining the well-being of the subject, and informed consent
500
Surveys, observations, experiments, and existing sources are all ways that sociologists use this fourth step in the scientific method.
What is collect and analyze data?
500
The unintended influence that observers of experiments can have on their subjects
What is the Hawthorne effect?
500
When evaluating sources, you should examine these elements: (name at least one)
What is author, date of publication, edition or revision, and publisher
500
An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to assess the concept
What is an operational definition?
500
This refers to the degree to which a measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.