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While knowledge gained from our experiential reality through first-hand experiences may be more accurate and valuable, most of our knowledge comes through this reality.
What is agreement reality?
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This model has the goal of finding cause - effect relationships (finding factors that make someone more or less likely to do something). This model doesn’t say that something will or will not happen, but rather that certain factors will more or less likely lead to a given behavior or result.
What is the probabilistic causal model?
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If I want to know how many people from my survey went to public school, I should run this type of analysis.
What is a frequency table?
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This is a systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspect of social life.
What is a theory?
100
If the researcher is able to identify a given response with a given respondent but promises not to do so publicly, the research is this.
What is confidential?
200
This is when you don’t get the result you were expecting so you hypothesize a reason for it.
What is Ex Post Facto Hypothesizing?
200
This does not take into account that there are other factors guiding human behavior that make social research more complex.
What is positivism?
200
A number of studies found that this popular program designed to decrease usage of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco in teenagers in fact had no effect on students' use of these substances.
What is D.A.R.E.?
200
In the hypothesis that churchgoers are more likely to have marital strife, this is the dependent variable.
What is amount of marital strife?
200
If a teacher makes his/her class fill out a survey in order for them to pass the class, the teacher is violating this ethical guideline.
What is voluntary participation?
300
Instead of basing my eating habits on research findings of healthy living, I decide that the best plan is to eat when I'm hungry. This is an example of what type of second hand knowledge.
What is common sense?
300
This research approach emphasizes the production of precise and generalizable statistical findings.
What is quantitative research?
300
It would make more sense to run this type of analysis for height but not so much for gender.
What are descriptive statistics?
300
I am researching the effect of working an off-campus job during college on your GPA. These are two possible attributes of the independent variable.
What are "working an off-campus job" and "not working an off-campus job"?
300
It can be argued that the “Welfare Study Withholds Benefits from 800 Texans” controversy violated this ethical guideline(s).
What is voluntary participation/informed consent, and/or no harm to participants?
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The fact that even though Carrie Thomas had proven herself as one of the brightest economic minds of her time, she was constantly discredited by her critics based on the fact that she had cheated on her husband several years ago demonstrates this type of illogical reasoning.
What is an Ad hominem attack?
400
This model uses few variables and looks for patterns that occur in general.
What is the nomothetic model?
400
This is the function we used to make the variable "season" from "birthmonth."
What is recode?
400
A professor reads about seasonal affective disorder which correlates emotional state to weather conditions. He records how many students in his class seem depressed on a sunny day and then on a rainy day.
What is deductive reasoning? (started with theory before observing his class to test the hypothesis)
400
A panel of faculty, and possibly others, who review all research proposals involving human subjects and rule on their ethics is this.
What is an Institutional Review Board?
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These are the main cornerstones to the scientific method (name two).
What is "everything is open to question," "knowledge is seen as provisional," "research is based on observation, objectivity, and replication," and "evidence based on observation is the basis for knowledge"?
500
The free will model (the belief that we control our own destinies) conflicts with this model and key principle of social research.
What is the deterministic model (human behavior is a product of forces and factors in the world that you cannot control and may not even recognize)?
500
Scared Straight, a program designed to decrease juvenile delinquency, has actually been shown to do this to the rate of crimes committed by participants.
What is increase?
500
Social science is based on these two assumptions about life.
What is life is regular and not totally chaotic, and life is guided by a number of formal norms/laws?
500
We have to always consider whether the benefits of our research outweigh the costs since all studies involve this.
What is some ethical violations and/or some risk of harm to participants?
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