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If ask people questions regarding a specific topic then this is an example of...
Survey
If you are married or unmarried it is what kind of variable
Qualitative Variable
Is this question a closed or open question. What is your favorite brand of ice cream?
Open-ended question
The number of kids that go to a country concert and the number of kids that go to a Taylor Swift concert is a
Quantitative Variable
What is the variable called that changes the relationship between the independent and dependent variable
intervening variable
People with all the characteristics a researcher wants to study is
Population
What is the definition of sample
limited number of cases drawn from the larger population
Someone got a bug in there eye, and he couldn't see where he was going, because he couldn't see he ran into a door and got a black eye. What vocab term does this describe ?
multiple causation
What chapter are we studying
Chapter 2
What is an example of causation ?
If you smoke then you are more likely to get lung cancer
A testable therory
Hypothesis
A sociologist is observing waiters at a restaurant, and he goes undercover to get a better understanding of how they act. This is
participant observation
questionnaire
Something that you might take into consideration before conduction a study is age, which is an example of what ?
a variable
If I am studying why girls would rather wear makeup then boys, and I go to my friend who is also studying this for information it is a
secondary analysis
When you study something that variable that is the result of the changed variable is
dependent variable
correlation
What method to sociologist use to solve problems
the scientific method
Looking at how different groups in High school act is
field research
What is the definition of spurious correlation
a relationship between two variables that is actually caused by a third factor
If you talk to someone face to face for a new job this is an
interview
What is a case study ?
a study of a single group, incident, or community
What is a closed question
A closed question is a question that has a limited selection of answers
Representative sample is
the sample that accurately reflects the characteristics of the population as a whole
When studying something the variable that causes something to change is
independent variable