Ethics
Literature review
Variables
The research process
Hypotheses
100
The primary function of an IRB
What is make sure human participants are protected in research studies?
100
A reason that the Internet can be a useful source of knowledge
What is the ease of updating information easily, and thus, having more up-to-date information than printed material?
100
In a cause-and-effect relationship, the variable that is presume to be the cause
What is an independent variable?
100
The type of research that employs probing questions
What is qualitative research?
100
The type of hypothesis that explains and predicts that relationship between two variables
What is a directional hypothesis?
200
When only the researcher knows the participants' identities
What is confidentiality?
200
The reason scholarly journal articles are particularly trustworthy knowledge sources
What is the anonymous peer-review process prior to publication?
200
A variable that describes a participant's age, race, gender, social class, employment status, among other factors
What is a demographic variable?
200
A term to describe that scientific knowledge should be regarded as tentative, and subsequent research may prove it wrong.
What is provisional knowledge?
200
A hypothesis that two variables are not related
What is a null hypothesis?
300
The main ethical violation of the Tuskegee study
What is no unnecessary pain and suffering?
300
The name of a database that is a good place to begin a literature search (note: there are many right answers-- just name one!)
What is Social Work Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, SOCIndex, PsychInfo, Psychological Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International, or SAGE Urban Studies Abstracts?
300
In a cause-and-effect study, the variable that is presumed to be the effect
What is dependent variable?
300
The type of research that employs the careful measurement of variables
What is quantitative research?
300
A type of hypothesis that predicts there will be change in a dependent variable, but does not specify whether the change will be positive or negative
What is non-directional hypothesis?
400
Circumstances under which deception may be used in research
What are situations in which deception is deemed relatively harmless, and there is no alternative non-deception method that can be used?
400
The next step a researcher should take after compiling the articles needed for a literature review
What is critically review each article?
400
A variable that influences the dependent variable after the independent variable occurs.
What is an intervening variable?
400
The first step in the research process
What is problem identification and specification?
400
The variable "program completed" in this hypothesis: Clients who complete job training Program A will have greater success in finding employment than clients who complete Program B. (hint: it's either the independent or dependent variable.)
What is an independent variable?
500
The three ethical principles outlined by the Belmont Report
What are respect for the individual, beneficence, and justice?
500
when putting together a literature review, this is the way a researcher should handle finding two studies with conflicting results
What is including both of them?
500
A variable that interacts with the dependent and independent variables in such a way to make them appear less closely related then they really are
What is a confounding variable?
500
The definition of a social work research problem
What is a gap in knowledge that causes social work practice to be less effective than it could be?
500
The direction of this hypothesis: The more knowledge social workers have about AIDS, the more comfortable they are in helping people with AIDS.
What is a positive direction?
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