Human Inquiry
Theory and Explanation
Concepts and Variables
Kinda Iffy
Surveys
100

We say that research based on observation or experimentation is this.

What is empirical?
100
This kind of data is expressed in numerical form. 
What is quantitative data? 
100

This process involves taking theoretical concepts and deciding how they will be empirically measured as variables.

What is operationalization? 
100

This branch of philosophy involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behaviour.

What is Ethics?
100

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 questions? 
200
Knowledge acquired through socialization informs this kind of reality. 
What is agreement reality? 
200
In social science, this term refers to an explanatory statement that fits the evidence.
What is a theory? 
200
This is the most common way of operationalizing height in Canada. 
What are feet and inches? 
200

In order to protect human subjects from being coerced or forced to participate in scientific research, we must obtain this.

What is informed consent?
200

This is a kind of survey or interview question that has and/or, and asks more than one thing.

What is a double-barrelled question? 
300

When we assume that one experience is evidence of a general pattern, we may be making this error in inquiry.

What is overgeneralization? 
300

This term refers to the fundamental models or frames of reference we use to organize our observations and reasoning.

What is a paradigm? 
300
Asking respondents to indicate levels of agreement or disagreement on a scale from 1-5, is an example of this kind of closed question. 
What is a Likert scale? 
300

This term refers to when the participant's name is never known to the researcher, and is something that you all guaranteed your own participants.

What is anonymity? 
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? 
400

This is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge.

What is epistemology? 
400

This is a kind of reasoning that moves from the particular to the general -- from a set of specific observations to the discovery of a pattern, and involves a process of first gathering evidence and then formulating explanations or theories. 

What is inductive reasoning? 
400
This type of study examines relationships between two or more variables. 
What is a correlational study? 
400

When a participant drops out of a research project after it is already underway, he is exercising his right to this.

What is the ability to withdraw. 
400

This kind of survey or interview question allows a respondent to answer in any form they wish.

What is an open-ended question? 
500
Experiential reality is informed by these two kinds of experience. 
What are concrete and abstract experience? 
500

This is the theoretical perspectives aimed at understanding the “big picture” of institutions, whole societies, and the interactions among societies.

What is macro-level theory? 
500

These types of methodological approach involve no manipulation of the situation, circumstances or experiences of the subjects.

What are non-experimental methods? (Archival, existing data analysis, observation, content analysis, surveys and interviews). 
500
When deception is used in a research project, the researchers must ensure they do this. 
What is debrief participants? 
500

The ability to establish a rapport with respondents is an advantage of this kind of approach to survey/interview administration.

What is individually administered? 
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