Likert scales and other questions with pre-determined answers are examples of this kind of question, which is often time consuming to create.
What are closed-ended questions?
100
In social research, this is the group of people being studied, according to one shared characteristic.
What is a population?
100
The ethical guidelines we follow when conducting research involving humans can be traced back to the drafting of this code, following a series of military tribunals held after World War II.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
100
This type of method involves manipulating an independent variable, and is the only method that can determine true cause and effect relationships.
What is an experiment?
100
This type of interview or questionnaire involves asking for information from every individual in a population.
What is a census?
200
This is a kind of survey or interview question that has and/or, and asks more than one thing.
What is a double-barreled question?
200
This is the list that represents an entire population.
What is a sample frame?
200
Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose research on mind control and shock therapy informed CIA torture methods, was a psychologist affiliated with this university.
What is McGill University?
200
This kind of research design involves subjecting all research participants to a control condition and an experimental condition.
What is a one-group (or within-subjects) design?
200
This form of statistical test generates a table that depicts the relationship between two variables, which can be at any level of measurement.
What are Crosstabular Statistics?
300
This is a kind of question construction that may influence a respondent to answer in a certain way, potentially reducing the validity of our results.
What is a leading question?
300
These four sampling methods are all considered probability sampling, and require a sample frame.
What are random, systematic random, stratified, and cluster?
300
This research, which analyzed the effects of syphilis on illiterate African-American men in the Southern U.S., is considered the longest non-therapeutic experiment in history.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
300
When conducting an experiment, we manipulate this variable.
What is the independent variable?
300
This process involves taking theoretical concepts and deciding how they will be empirically measured as variables.
What is operationalization?
400
Interviews and questionnaires are often primary methodological tools used within this two types of social scientific studies.
What are descriptive and correlational?
400
This kind of sampling method is used when a sample frame is difficult or impossible to determine, is useful for tracing social networks, and involves asking existing informants about potential new informants.
What is snowball sampling?
400
In Frans de Waal's experiments with capuchin monkeys, the giving of cucumbers or grapes as rewards was the operationalized variable of this concept.
What is equality/fairness?
400
In the TED Talk on social policy experiments, it was found that giving this as an incentive dramatically increased the number of immunized children in Udaipur, India.
What are lentils?
400
The ability to establish a rapport is an advantage of this kind of approach to survey/interview administration.
What is individually administered.
500
This kind of survey or interview question allows a respondent to answer in any form they wish.
What is an open-ended question?
500
When generalizations can be made about a sample that apply to an entire population, we say that the sample is this.
What is representative?
500
If we asked every Montreal Canadiens player what year they were born, we would have data at this level of measurement.
What is interval?
500
Jane Elliot's eye colour experiment is an example of this kind of experimental design.
What is within-subjects (or one-group) design?
500
This MIT economist conducts experiments in order to better inform social policies aimed at reducing global poverty.