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LIFE SKILLS
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
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The calendar date of your class midterm.
What is June 17th?
100
A logically interrelated set of propositions about empirical reality.
What is a theory?
100
The four major dubiously ethical case studies covered in class.
What are Stanford Prison, Milgram Obedience, Tuskeegee Syphilis and Humphreys Tearoom Trade?
100
A variable having only two values.
What is a dichotomy?
100
Exists when a conclusions based on a sample, or subset, of a larger population holds true for that population.
What is sample generalizability?
200
The number of pages your final paper can be.
What is 10-15 pages.
200
Journals that selected research papers for publication based on the peer reviews of other social scientists.
What are refereed journals?
200
Minimizing possible harms and maximizing benefits for participants.
What is benificence?
200
The type of validity that is established by showing that a measure is related to other measures as specified in a theory.
What is construct validity?
200
A nonprobability sampling method in which elements are selected to ensure that the sample represents certain characteristics in proportion to their prevalence in the population.
What is quota sampling?
300
Three 'scientific' words that should not appear in your final paper except in the proper academic context.
What are 'cause,' 'random,' and 'significant.'
300
Statements that describe patterns found in data.
What are empirical generalizations?
300
A type of research in which the researcher involves some organizational members as active participants throughout the process of studying an organization; the goal is making changes in the organization.
What is participatory action research?
300
The type of validity that is established by comparing the scores obtained on the measure being validated to those obtained with a more direct or already validated measure of the same phenomenon.
What is critereon validity?
300
A symmetrical graph-shape (like a bell) centered around a population mean. Hint: your grades in this class will form one of these naturally.
What is a normal distribution?
400
The date of your final paper.
What is July 15th?
400
Unexpected patterns in data, which stimulate new ideas or theoretical approaches.
What are serendipitous or anomalous findings?
400
A 1979 National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioural Research report that established three basic ethical principles for the protection of human subjects?
What is the Belmont Report?
400
This level of measurement collects variables in which the numbers indicating the value of the variable specify only the order of the cases, permitting 'greater than' and 'less than' distinctions, but not to the level of being at even intervals.
What is ordinal data?
400
Mathematical tools for estimating how likely it is that a statistical result based on data from a random sample is representative of the population from which the sample was selected.
What are inferential statistics?
500
The distrubtion of attendance vs participation grades in this tutorial (in a ration out of ten.)
What is 2:8?
500
The topic/subject of a notorious 1984 study in Minneapolis conducted by Sherman and Berk, which taught the research community lessons about the implication of research on crime control policy.
What is domestic violence?
500
A philosophy that believes in a material reality that can be discovered by empirical research, and the evolving counterphilosophy that suggests that though this external objective reality exists the social scientists who study it will bring their own biases to the table as a result of their positionality within the system.
What are positivism and postpositivism?
500
Consistent measurements obtained by different observers rating the same persons, events, or places.
What is interobserver reliability?
500
A (potentially erroneous) conclusion drawn by generalizing from an observation of the group population to the individual. ie; in prisons where the guards have a collectively lower level of higher education, there is more guard brutality, ergo non-college educated officers are more likely to commit brutality.
What is an ecological fallacy?