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When we rely on the “truths” of our culture we are accepting knowledge derived from the majority. This is acceptance of _____.
What is traditions
100
Violence in children’s programming is a major research endeavor that requires counting the number of violent acts in Saturday morning cartoons for an entire year. The units of analysis being used for this project are _____.
What is social artifacts
100
Neither the subjects nor the researcher can identify which group is the control group and which is the experimental group. Which design does this describe?
What is double-blind experiment
100
_________ as a threat to internal validity in experiments refers to as people grow and change, results can be impacted
What is Maturation
100
If, on a questionnaire, a respondent is asked “what do you feel is the most important crime problem facing the police in your city today?”, they are being asked what type of question?
What is open-ended question
200
When we trust the judgments of people who have special training, such as a doctor or a lawyer, we are accepting their _____.
What is authority
200
The age of an offender is an example of which level of measurement?
What is ratio
200
On the first day of the semester, your introductory criminology instructor handed out a very long questionnaire asking things that you did not think was appropriate about your drinking habits. Back in the dorm you complained to your roommates and discovered that they were given the same questionnaire by their instructors. What sampling method was used?
convience sample
200
When we ask people for information, they will respond using a filter of what will make them look good. This is known as ____________.
What is social desirability
200
When we say something is _____, we make a judgment about the extent to which relevant evidence supports that inference as being true or correct.
What is valid
300
When information is gathered by researchers and there are no identifying characteristics allowing the researchers to match up results to individual subjects, this illustrates _____.
What is anonymity
300
If a researcher is concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will, after repeated measures, yield the same results, they are concerned with _____.
What is reliability
300
A Residence Assistant (RA) at a local university devised a plan to spot check the dorm for illegal drinking by knocking on every 5th door on each floor. What technique was the RA using?
What is systematic sampling
300
________ analysis is used to help design alternative courses of action.
What is Policy
300
__________________________________________moves from the specific to the general, from a set of particular observations to the discovery of a pattern that represents some degree of order among the varied events under examination.
What is inductive reseaoning
400
A local university is hosting the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) for a large group of prospective law students. Since there is such a large group taking the test, some professors of sociology from the local university decide to administer a questionnaire to the group asking their ideas on teenage sexual promiscuity. The professors informed the group about their research project. They assured them that their identity will not be disclosed and all information gathered will remain confidential. Which ethical consideration was not considered?
What is voluntary participation
400
If randomization is not possible, what should the researcher do?
What is quasi-experiment
400
Whn your sample has a characteristic of interest to the study is a deviant one and only a small number of people who know one another are required. Also think of F.B.I. background check.
What is snowball sampling
400
When dealing with stakeholders a researcher should be aware of all of the following:
What is be able to identify all the stakeholders find out the stakeholders’ perspectives on the program find out the stakeholders’ perspectives on the evaluation
400
In determining which role to assume while doing field research what should the researcher consider?
What is ethical and methodological considerations
500
What does the “CRAAP Test?” stand for?
What is Current, relevant, authority, accuracy,purpose
500
When a sample closely reflects the population in terms of aggregate characteristics, the sample is said to be _________________ of the population.
What is representative
500
Field research is a data collection method that involves the __________________of phenomena in their natural settings.
What is direct observation
500
Example of a continuous variable?
What is age, income
500
Professor White asked his students to put the number of hours each studied for the final exam on a piece of paper and turn that paper in with the exam. The pieces of paper indicate that students studied 10, 3, 4, 25, 1, 4, 4, 12, 6, 8, and 10 hours. What is the mean number of hours studied?
What is 7.9