What type of research is this?
A researcher evaluates the efficacy of a rehousing intervention, finding that rehousing led to improvements in participants' mental and physical health and was cost-effective for the city. What kind of research is this?
Evaluation research
What is a "systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain some aspect of social life"?
Theory
What does informed consent involve?
Providing participants a a full understanding of the research project and its possible risks and benefits in order for the participant to make an informed decision if they want to willingly participate or not
What is a variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable?
Independent variable
I'm interested in how witnessing IPV as a child may impact romantic relationships in adulthood, but there's not much research on this topic. I do a small study interviewing adults with child IPV exposure about their current relationships. What type of research is this?
Exploratory research
I use social support theory to develop a hypothesis that social isolation will be predictive of worse health outcomes among aging individuals. I then collect data to see if my hypothesis is supported. Which approach is this?
Deductive reasoning
According to federal IRB guidelines, what are three examples of "vulnerable populations"?
Individuals with diminshed mental capacity
Incarcerated individuals
Children
Which research paradigm is most concerned about generalizing its findings?
Quantitative research
A school counselor is interested in how many students qualify for receiving free or reduced lunch in their district. They find that 37% of the children in their district qualify. What type of research is this?
Descriptive research
True or False? Positivism focuses on objectivity, empirical knowledge, and deductive logic.
True
True or False? Study participants are required to provide researchers with a good reason in order to withdraw from a study.
False
What are the criteria necessary to determine a causal relationship?
Temporality - If X causes Y, X has to precede Y in time
Plausibility - The claim that X causes Y has to make sense theoretically
Nonspuriousness - The relationship between X and Y cannot be due to a third, unknown variable
A social worker does a study to determine whether income inequality predicts social and institutional trust in the U.S. What type of research is this?
Explanatory research
True or False? Postmodernism suggests that truth is always objectively knowable.
Which of the following was NOT a influential study leading to the creation of modern ethical research standards?
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
The Belmont Study
You are surveying adults who have adopted children to find out information about the children's birth parents. If the birth parents are your units of analysis, the adults who have adopted children are your:
Units of observation