Ethical guidelines in research
Which of the following statements about protection harm is false?
A. Offering the right to withdraw is a way protect from harm
B. Participants should not be placed at any more risk than they would in their everyday life.
C. Participants should be protected from physical and psychological harm
D. It is acceptable to place participants under stress as long as they are fully debriefed
What is D. It is acceptable to place participants under stress as long as they are fully debriefed
Refers to the level of consistency of an instrument and the degree to which the same results are obtained when the instrument is used repeatedly with the same individuals or group.
What is reliability
Which of the following is an advantage of using focus groups?
A. Although they are expensive, they provide important information.
B. The interactions between group members can reveal aspects of a topic that a researcher did not anticipate.
C. The results are usually generalizable to a larger population.
D. The moderator of the group does not need any special skills.
What is B. The interactions between group members can reveal aspects of a topic that a researcher did not anticipate.
A teacher puts students' names in a hat and chooses without looking to get a sample of 333 students.
What type of sample is this?
A. Simple random sample
B. Stratified random sample
C. Cluster random sample
D. Systematic random sample
E. None of the above
What is A. Simple random sample
The part of the experiment that does not contain the independent variable.
A. Control group
B. Experimental group
What is A. control group
What is one of the key decision points in the thoughtful use of deception?
A. Ignore any potential consequences
B. Conduct briefing and debriefing
C. Continue to use deception without exploring whether there are other options
What is B. Conduct briefing and debriefing
Which of the following are test related factors which could affect the validity of a test?
A. Anxiety
B. Motivation
C. Understanding test directions
D. All of the above
What is D. all of the above
Triangulation in qualitative research may include:
A. Using multiple observers to collect data.
B. Asking colleagues who have contrasting theoretical orientations to analyze the data.
C. Using multiple coders to classify observations.
D. All of these choices.
E. Using more than one qualitative method to analyze the data.
What is D. All of these choices
A large company surveys 100,100,100 employees by taking random samples of 101,010 managers and 909,090 non-managerial employees.
What type of sample is this? Choose 1 answer:
A. Simple random sample
B. Stratified random sample
C. Cluster random sample
D. Systematic random sample
E. None of the above
What is B. Stratified random sample
Time series research design is a series of measurements of the ______ before introducing treatment and after the treatment.
A. Confounding variable
B. Independent variable
C. Dependent variable
D. Mediating variable
What is C. Dependent variable
When obtaining "informed consent" which of the following would be least likely to be included:
A. Aims of the research
B. Explanation about the right to withdraw
C. Explanation about what the data will be used for
D. Debriefing
What is D. Debriefing
A research instrument can be reliable, but not valid. True or False?
What is True.
Which of the following is true about grounded theory?
A. It is set up to confirm or disconfirm a specific hypothesis.
B. It typically relies on a deductive approach to knowledge building.
C. It relies on random sampling.
D. It attempts to understand cases within their context.
What is D. It attempts to understand cases within their context.
Identify the following sampling method: Selection of similar cases until theme is exhausted and a different type of cases (related to grounded theory) are selected of new interviewees that continue until a saturation point is reached.
Theoretical sampling
Which of the following is true about a quasi-experimental design?
A. It enables researchers to make claims of causality to the same extent as full experimental designs
B. It does not contain random assignment of subjects to conditions
C. It is distinct from correlational designs because the independent variable is always manipulated
D. It is considered to be in the same category as observational methods and case study methods since it does not fit into other experimental design category
What is B. It does not contain random assignment of subjects to conditions
If participants are deceived, which other ethical issue does this automatically create?
A. Lack of privacy
B. Lack of informed consent
C. Lack of withdraw
D. Lack of confidentiality of anonymity
What is B. Lack of informed consent
Validity is a concept that... (choose the best answer)
A. Measures the consistency of the measurement taken under the study.
B. Measures the accuracy of the concept that it is supposed to measure.
C. Covers the the full range of the issue set for the study
What is B. Measures the accuracy of the concept that it is supposed to measure.
A social work researcher is interested in studying life inside an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The researcher is hoping to describe the culture of the hospital from the inside and explain the lives of people who are living in full-time psychiatric care. This study would most likely use what qualitative method?
a. Grounded theory.
b. Ethnography.
c. Phenomenology.
d. Case study.
What is B. Ethnography
A quality control worker at a factory selects the first 101 items she sees as her sample for the day.
What type of sample is this?
A. Simple random sample
B. Stratified random sample
C. Cluster random sample
D. Systematic random sample
E. Convenience sample
What is E. Convenience sample
Because the independent variable is _________ before the dependent variable is ___________, quasi-experimental research eliminates the directionality problem.
A. measured, manipulated
B. manipulated, measured
C. measured, tested
What is B. manipulated, measured
Any researcher should weigh the expected __________ for society with the potential ______________.
What is benefits and harm
Suppose you created a new reading comprehension test and you want to test its validity. Therefore you compare the results of your new measure to existing validated measures of reading comprehension and find that your measure compares well with these other measures. We could then say that your new measure has good:
A. Predictive validity
B. Content validity
C. Concurrent validity
D. Reliability
What is C. Concurrent validity
A social work student is interested in studying the topic of twin identity development. In particular, the student would like to figure out how twins raised together develop both individual and joint identities. The goal of the research would be to develop a clear explanation for how pairs of twins develop their identities in comparison to what is already understood about identity development. This study would most likely use what qualitative method?
a. Participatory action research.
b. Grounded theory.
c. Ethnography.
d. Phenomenology
What is B. Grounded theory
A hospital wants to survey religious participants in their city about what they seek from a hospital chaplain, so they randomly select 555 religious meetings in the city and survey every participant in those meetings.
What type of sample is this? Choose 1 answer:
A. Simple random sample
B. Stratified random sample
C. Cluster random sample
D. Systematic random sample
E. None of the above
What is C. Cluster random sample
In the Time Series Design, the data collected are mostly represented in the form of a _____.
What is a graph or chart