It is a variable that is assumed to depend or be caused by another variable
What is a dependent variable?
100
It is the name of the board on the High Point campus charged with judging whether research studies involving people are ethical or not.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
100
It means “After it, therefore because of it”.
(Alternatively: After this, therefore because of this.)
What is “post hoc ergo propter hoc”?
100
It is the mental process by which imprecise notions are made more specific and precise
What is conceptualization?
100
Gallup concluded—falsely—in 1948 that he would be the next president of the United States.
Who is Thomas E. Dewey?
200
It is the type of logic of inquiry in which theory is derived from specific observations.
What is inductive?
200
It is the report that followed the revelation of the Tuskeegee Syphilis study and established ethical guidelines for human subjects research
What is the Belmont Report?
200
A type of cause that represents a condition that must be present for a particular effect to follow. (That is, the effect will not happen if that particular cause is absent.)
What is a necessary cause?
200
This is an observation social scientists choose to consider as a reflection of a particular variable under study. For example, wearing a flag pin might be related to patriotism.
What is an indicator?
200
It is a type of non-probability sampling in which each person interviewed by a researcher may be asked to suggest additional people for the researcher to interview
What is snowball sampling?
300
They are broad worldviews or general frameworks through which we seek to understand the social world.
What are paradigms?
300
Of TRUE or FALSE, it describes the statement that social science research studies must eliminate 100 percent of risk to human subjects
What is FALSE?
300
It is a term that refers to a type of approach to modeling politics. People who study “rational choice” often employ it.
What is formal theory?
300
This is a type of variable for which the distance between attributes has meaning, but there is not necessarily a specific “0” point.
What is an interval variable?
300
If you are doing a phone survey of people in the state of New York and you only interview people on land-line telephones, you are potentially reaching an non-representative sample because you are ignoring this specific group.
What is cell phone only respondents?
400
It is a paradigm of international relations theory/research that posits that states (countries) in the international system are unitary actors that behave rationally
What is realism?
400
It is the code established as the result of sometimes deadly experiments on prisoners during World War II.
What is the Nuremburg Code?
400
This means a longitudinal study in which data is collected from the same set of people at several points in time.
What is a panel study?
400
Imagine a bullseye/target with a lot of shot clustered close together, high and to the right. This describes that visual in terms of validity and reliability.
What is reliable, but not valid?
400
If you are doing a survey of all undergraduate students on HPU campus and you use a list of HPU undergraduate emails addresses to reach them, it is the term used to describe that list.
What is sampling frame?
500
It is an approach to theory construction (logic of inquiry) that begins with a general theory, derives hypotheses from it and then tests them.
What is deductive?
500
Correlation does not necessarily indicate this
What is causation?
500
This type of cause indicates a condition that, if present, guarantees a particular effect. (That is, if this happens or is present, then you always see the effect.)
What is a sufficient cause?
500
It is the type of validity in which the general quality of an indicator makes it seem to be a reasonable measure of some variable.
What is face validity?
500
If the underlying distribution of what I am trying to measure (through sampling) follows a normal distribution, what percentage of the population should be within two standard deviations of the population mean?