What is the research that defines and illustrates social phenomena?
100
Deductive theory begins with which element?
What is Social Theory?
100
What level of measurement is being used when values are measured in kind but not quantity?
What is nominal?
100
The measure that yields consistent scores.
What is reliability?
100
The entire set of individuals or other entities to which study findings will be generalized.
What is the population?
200
This type of research gives you information such as: "As average income of a neighborhood increases, violent crime rate decreases."
What is explanatory research?
200
The process by which a researcher defines specifically what he or she means when using a concept is known as?
What is conceptualization?
200
Although few true interval-level measures exist in the social sciences, what is an example of one that is likely to be treated as one?
What is an index?
200
Different observers measure the same phenomena in the same way.
What is inter-rater reliability?
200
The subset of the population used to study the population as a whole.
What is a sample?
300
When the researcher proposes a project in which she will interview several immigrants from other countries to find out why they chose to move to the United States, you would describe the research as...
What is exploratory research?
300
The group that reviews research proposals for possible ethical violations is known as???
What is the Institutional Review Board or IRB?
300
Which scale is the most mathematically precise?
What is ratio?
300
A measure can predict scores on a criterion measured in the future.
What is predictive validity?
300
The difference between the characteristics of a sample and the characteristics of the population from which it was drawn.
What is a sampling error?
400
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) has resulted in a 50% decrease in the number of families receiving assistance and a 50% increase in the number of working mothers. This information suggests which kind of social research?
What is an evaluation study?
400
A variable that is hypothesized to vary depending on the influence of another variable is called ???
What is the Dependent Variable?
400
A variable that has only two values.
What is a dichotomy?
400
When researchers measure an unchanging phenomenon at 2 different times, the rate to which the 2 measurements are related.
What is test-re-test reliability?
400
Another name for convenience sampling.
What is availability sampling?
500
Using experimental design methods to study a research question enhances ???
What is Causal Validity?
500
Reviews of interventions that set criteria for the kinds of studies to be included based on study design, the population studied, and outcomes are typically known as??
What are Systematic Reviews?
500
These reduce idiosyncratic variation in response to individual questions.
What are indexes and scales?
500
The statistic commonly used to measure inter-item reliability.
What is Cronbach's alpha?
500
In what type of sampling design do you most of see the sampling bias known as periodicity?